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Old Wed Oct 24, 2007, 05:50pm
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
I've recently been told by a German friend that the German language is a derivative of Latin. Must be the black-sheep of the Latin family.
According to the scholars German is not a Romance language -- meaning derived from Latin, such as Italian and Spanish. Germanic is its own branch, and English is said to come from that.
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