Why Are the Romance Languages All So Similar?

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  @Alias_Anybody · 8 months ago

  It's funny how French is basically just Parisian and Italian is just Tuscan, but with German you need one A4 page to explain wtf the artificial dialect called "Standard German" even is.

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• EN

  @enusama_9384 · 7 months ago

  "Why am I related to my relatives?" ahh question

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• DA

  @Dante_-cg3fq · 7 months ago

  English: But of course we&apos;re a Germanic language.<br>Also English: But 60% of our language is based on Latin or Old French.

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• SE

  @SelerTabitu · 8 months ago (edited)

  Galician and Portuguese diverged from Latin together as a single language called Galician-Portuguese. In both Galicia and Portugal, we still study the same medieval literature in high school, because it was originally written in the same language.

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• CO

  @conorspyridon7008 · 8 months ago

  With dalmatian Italian, I can&apos;t believe that not only a man died in an explosion but also a WHOLE language 😮

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• ST

  @stevejohnson3357 · 8 months ago

  The Roman state did not ban other languages. Gallic survived in pockets until the 6th century. It&apos;s just that everybody had to learn latin and gradually, people stopped using their native language with their kids.

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• SI

  @siljeff2708 · 8 months ago

  At one point, were there 101 dalmation languages?

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• DI

  @diegoantoniorosariopalomin2206 · 8 months ago (edited)

  Once i was watching a Pokémon movie in italian. At the time i only knew spanish. By the end of the movie, i could understand it.<br>Something similar happened when i traveled to brazil

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• MA

  @mannygutierrez7654 · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbeBGS92_I&amp;t=222">3:42</a> &nbsp;I&apos;ve been on YouTube since the very beginning, I&apos;ve heard &quot;drop a sub&quot; millions of times, but this one made me laugh my ass off 😂

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• JI

  @Jiangzem8 · 8 months ago

  Cruella deville once wanted a coat made from Dalmatian languages.

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• MZ

  @mz.projiekt · 7 months ago

  &quot;Why are the romance languages so similar?&quot;<br><br>The whole Italy, Iberian Peninsula, Occitan and Romanians looking at French as if it was an alien:

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• MA

  @mannygutierrez7654 · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbeBGS92_I&amp;t=454">7:34</a> The Visigoths had a huge influence on our names for some reason 😅 my last name, Gutierrez, comes from the Germanic name Walter, it was Hispanicized into &quot;Gualter&quot; which became Gualtierrez, then Gutierrez. There&apos;s tons of Hispanic surnames that come from this era 😅

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