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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
Well, there was a time when a change towards Greek and Latin was inevitable. All it takes is some centuries of isolation and you're back to where you started. "Oh that will never happen" isn't really a solid argument, and it has certainly happened before.
That's an interesting point. In fact, Latin is not a different language from Greek. But, Ancient greek evolved. In the latin area, it became the latin language (imo, "nothing IS, but everything BECOMES" or "panta rei" in old greek).
Exactly like species, a new language doesn't appear in one day, it's always the same words but they evolve in different way (I know Darwin is not "legal" in every US state, but, I hope it's not the case in this forum
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Just an exemple :
Night (English)
Nuit (French)
Nacht (German)
Noche (spanish, Italian)
Nux, Nuctos (ancient greek)
Nox, noctem (Latin)
Every european language comes from "indo-européen" (sorry, I don't find a translation) language, spoken thousands of years ago (like Sanskrit).
Imo, it's already the case with english nowadays. I guess more people in the world speak an european language (english, spanish, french or other) than people who speak Mandarin in China (China is very big country with very different cultures).
But does it mean, English will keep being ONE language ? (In my english dictionnary, there are specific English terms and sepecufic US terms for example. I suppose it's the same in Australia, India and others english speaking countries).
And, another question for OP : Don't you think that more languages means more cultures and, by the way, a more intersting humanity ?
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