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Originally Posted by Merci Alizée
Is it the case with languages having lot of words ending with a vowel?
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I don't know any more. I remember learning all this in high school, but I have long since forgotten the details. Do we have a language major out ther who can answer this (where is Garcon Canadien when you need him)?
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Originally Posted by awkward Turtle
They are called Romance languages because they all evolved from Latin, the language spoken by the Romans.
In just the same way, English belongs to the Germanic family of languages because it evolved, along with German, Dutch, Norwegian, and others from a theorized proto-Germanic language.
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And those from Indo-European - the common root to western and Indian languages, including Latin and Sanskrit.
By the way, if I remember correctly, Lithuanian is the closest modern day language to the ancient Indo-European.