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Did you know that the Romanian language is a Romance langauge that is only 1500 years away from Latin? Someone told me, yesterday, that Romanian was the closest modern cognate of Latin. I didn't believe him, since I couldn't believe that it'd be closer than Italian, and I'm still not convinced of that. But Romanian is really, really close to Latin -- maybe closer than Spanish or French.

Weird.

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Date: 2002-11-04 12:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kiya
I would note that "Italian" as a language is arguably a loose compromise amongst a large number of sometimes incomprehensible dialects.

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Date: 2002-11-04 12:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kiya
s/incomprehensible/mutually incomprehensible

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