• Hegar@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    German isn’t a Latin language, it’s in the Germanic branch, along with English, Dutch and others. French, Italian and Spanish are Romance or Latin languages.

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      9 months ago

      True! It’s not just a Latin thing and Slavic languages have it too. I wonder where it came from originally. Probably one of those Proto Indo European things. Though it’s in some Indigenous Australian languages too (though not all) so might be even older?