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Let's see this semester, I'm gonna study Middle English...what a nuisance!
I studied Old English but I forgot almost everything... @Perikles, what is your field of study? |
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An embarrassing question. I studied physics and maths, and gave up a PhD in atmospheric physics because it was too boring. I then proceeded with a distance-learning degree in German, with some Indo-European background. I then spent some tedious years programming computers until I gave that up to do a degree in Ancient Greek, and then I did a PhD in Greek language, studying ancient Greek ideas of etymology. I have omitted a few other minor things from all that.
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What do you mean with 'some Indo-European background'? (Taking into account that I know Indo-European is the alleged origin of almost all languages, except in America) You mean you studied the influence of other languages on modern German? |
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By the way, the Indo-European proto-language is the origin of most languages in Europe and India (duh!) not the world. Nor is it the basis of Hungarian, Turkish, Finnish nor Basque. |
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That's why I said 'almost all languages in the world'; and except for the American continent (no le busques las 5 patas al gato!)
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Ah, but it's not almost all languages. I don't have the numbers, but of the 7,000 languages in the world, let's say 3,000 in the Americas, leaving 4,000 total. I imagine fewer than 1,000 are Indo-European. Nothing like almost. I'd be interested in seeing some stats on this, by the way.
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Ok, one of these days when I finish my exams I'll take out my Old English notes, but I only remember that in all continents, except for America and Oceania (now that I think about it and leaving Antarctica aside!), all languages originated from Indo-European except for those four you said, or even two or three other ones more.
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Have a look here, Wiki. What you might have meant is that from the point of view of geographical area covered, the Indo-European languages cover a larger area than any other family. |
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That was probably what my lecturer meant! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family at the end of that site there's a map with the main language families... However, they are mere hypothesis, ain't they? |
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Sí, pero bastante sólidas. (pl. Hypotheses)
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