are latin and italian similar?
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Italian is the closest language to Latin, most evidently in terms of vocabulary. According to the Ethnologue, Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 80% with Portuguese, 78% with Ladin, 77% with Romanian.
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He estimates the number of fluent Latin speakers as no more than 100. ... According to Foster, the language of the Vatican is not Latin but Italian, and to a lesser extent English. "You have to speak Italian properly, if not you're just out of it."
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Latin didn't have articles while Italian does. Latin had three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter), while Italian has only masc. and fem. Latin only had one tense to express perfective past actions, so Latin dixi 'I said' corresponds to both Italian dissi and ho detto.
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Polish is very distantly related to German as both are Indo-European language. Polish is a Slavic language, German is a Germanic language. They are very different.
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All of the Slavic languages are closely related to each other, but they are also related to the Romance and Germanic languages, including English, and to others in the Indo-European family.
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Originally Answered: Are Germanic languages Latin based? ... No, German originates from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, specifically the West Germanic branch, to which English also belongs, whereas Latin is from the Italic branch, from which the modern Romance languages are descended.
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neither in Europe nor in Asia are all languages the same, or share the same roots. Originally Answered: Romance languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French, & Italian have many similarities because of their roots in Latin. Are Asian languages similar in any way? Not so.
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Greek is a living language while Latin is often referred to as an extinct language. ... Both Greek and Latin languages stemmed from the Indo-European family of languages, but Latin later gave birth to a language family called the Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
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It turns out that while the Romance languages are related lineally to Latin (like children or grandchildren), German and Latin are related laterally (like cousins). Both languages are descended from a common ancestor, and although more difficult to detect, the traces of that relationship are there.
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Norwegian and Swedish are similar (though not mutually intelligible) and Finnish is not similar to either one. They belong to the Germanic family and specifically, to the Northern Germanic branch (along with Danish, Icelandic and Faroese, the latter two being Insular).
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The short answer is that Roman numerals are how the Romans wrote their numbers, and Latin numerals are how they said them.
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Unless you can attend a summer Latin immersion program, it will be hard to immerse yourself in Latin; however, Latin is not necessarily any harder than any modern language and may be easier for some to learn than the daughter languages of Latin, like French or Italian. Opinions vary.
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Italian Language. Although the official language spoken in Rome is Italian, travellers will find that many locals speak English, especially those who work in restaurants, hotels and other places associated with tourism.
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Japanese and Korean have somewhat similar word order, and are vaguely related to the same language family, unlike Chinese. However, Korean and Japanese are sufficiently different to make it a challenge to move on to Korean after Japanese. Korean has proven more difficult for me than I expected.
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Unlike Italian, which is almost entirely Latin based, Sicilian has elements of Greek, Arabic, French, Catalan, and Spanish. ... Grammatically, Sicilian is also very different from Italian. For example, all the pronouns for I, he, she, you, and them are different in Sicilian.
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English is a Germanic language, while Latin is an Italic language... neither is a direct ancestor of the other. Instead, English and Latin are both members of the Indo European language family, with English belonging to the Germanic branch and Latin belonging to the Italic branch (see below).
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Yes! Of course. Latin is so applicable to many different things which people completely disregard. It teaches you grammar, derivation of many many words, it teaches you how to think, how to use logic, to learn other romance languages more efficiently, and there are so many more benefits of learning Latin.