LING 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indo-European Languages, College Board, Vocal Folds

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The limits of my language are the limits of the world . The english language has an enormous number of words. No matter what method we use to count. The majority of the words in english are not native english words but either borrowed or formed from borrowed elements from latin, greek and french - about 80% of the entire english vocabulary! business, economics, computer. A great deal of the terminology (close to 90 - 95%) of science, science, communication, psychology, medicine, literature and indeed much of the vocabulary of higher education, is based on latin and greek roots worldwide. engineering, linguistics, These roots are dependable and unchanging and serve as the key to understanding the vocabulary of english and many of the modern european languages. An understanding of the core meaning of each root provides a tool for unlocking the meanings of thousands of latin and.

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