• NIB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Latin and Greek are nowhere even similar to each other. You might as well say that Latin and German are the same language. Greek and Latin are 2 different linguistic branches of indoeuropean languages. Latin is the precursor of romance languages like Italian, French and Spanish. Ancient Greek is the precursor of Greek. Other major European language branches are the Germanic(German, English, Swedish, etc) and slavic(Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, etc).

    Cool single indoeuropean individual language branches also include Armenian, Celtic and Albanian.

    Finnish and Hungarian arent indoeuropean languages.

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    1 year ago

    Immediately after uploading I see the mistake. I’m not changing it. I’m just trying to get through the day.

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    1 year ago

    It’s because of modern science-ish mixing them willynilly. They almost made a new artificial language at this point.

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    1 year ago

    They are different, but they are definitely related despite several confidently incorrect commenters.