What language you speak?

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English, miami-an english, spanish, and ummm i took italian in hs but ive never been tested so couldnt tell you how well i can hold a conversation.


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Metriacliman said:
So English isn't a real language?
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All languages have a parent language. The farthest back they trace language is proto-indo-european. English is in the Germanic language family. People say it is/was a pidgin but it is definitely a full language now. When cultures/languages come into contact pidgins are formed. A lot of countries around the world have very similar language with their neighbors: Ukraine/russia, and spain/portugal to name a few. These languages are so similar they could be dialects rather than different languages. But sometimes religion, politics, identity (to name a few reasons) play a role in whether a language evolves or dies. Language is pretty interesting. It tells you a lot about humans and culture.
 
aclockworkorange said:
LOL, I took a college linguistics class... Do I get to troll this thread too?


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Never stated I was an expert. I just like to learn about as much of the world around me. It is surprising to me how many people I come across that know nothing about their culture or language. I have ran into Spanish speaking people that did not know Spanish was related to Latin. I have ran into people that had no clue about where names of objects came from in their language. I am not expert on anthropology but I have a basic clue about some of the stuff in this world.
 
Pyramid_Party said:
All languages have a parent language. The farthest back they trace language is proto-indo-european. English is in the Germanic language family. People say it is/was a pidgin but it is definitely a full language now. When cultures/languages come into contact pidgins are formed. A lot of countries around the world have very similar language with their neighbors: Ukraine/russia, and spain/portugal to name a few. These languages are so similar they could be dialects rather than different languages. But sometimes religion, politics, identity (to name a few reasons) play a role in whether a language evolves or dies. Language is pretty interesting. It tells you a lot about humans and culture.
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you are right. some languages are created simply for political reasons (russian/ukrainian/belorussian, serbian/croatian, bulgarian/macedonian)

i speak russain, ukrainian, and american. taking spanish classes right now
 
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