Author Topic: What languages should I take? (Read 7932 times)

rivka · « **Reply #25 on:** April 23, 2008, 08:53:32 AM »

Does that mean the prophecy in Porter's sig has come to pass?

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #26 on:** April 23, 2008, 09:15:14 AM »

NOOOO!!!

goofy · « **Reply #27 on:** April 23, 2008, 09:59:34 AM »

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It seems that Romance is a subcategory of Italic.
That's strange. Shouldn't it be a subcategory of Latino-Faliscan? Ethnologue puts Latino-Faliscan and Romance as branches of Italic, which I don't believe is correct. It should go Italic > Latino-Faliscan > Romance or something similar.

why?

Jonathon · « **Reply #28 on:** April 23, 2008, 10:07:00 AM »

Because the Romance languages come from Latin, which is a Latino-Faliscan language. The Romance languages are descendants of a Latino-Faliscan language, but Ethnologue shows Romance and Latino-Faliscan side-by-side.

goofy · « **Reply #29 on:** April 23, 2008, 10:30:28 AM »

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Because the Romance languages come from Latin, which is a Latino-Faliscan language. The Romance languages are descendants of a Latino-Faliscan language, but Ethnologue shows Romance and Latino-Faliscan side-by-side.

I'm just guessing, but maybe Ethnologue has that classification because the Romance languages aren't descended from Latin, they're descended from Vulgar Latin, and while Latin is Latino-Faliscan, Vulgar Latin is not. Sort of like how Hindi-Urdu is not descended from Sanskrit, it's from the Prakrits that existed alongside Sanskrit. maybe. I don't really know.

Jonathon · « **Reply #30 on:** April 23, 2008, 03:25:01 PM »

Hmm. Possibly. I don't really know either.

The Genuine · « **Reply #31 on:** April 23, 2008, 10:19:39 PM »

Is Italic a class of languages, or a language itself?

Jonathon · « **Reply #32 on:** April 24, 2008, 07:56:42 AM »

I've always seen it used to refer to a language subfamily, but presumably the members of that family trace their origins to a specific language. I don't know what it was called, but I'd that linguists refer to it as Proto-Italic.

Edit: Actually, that article does indeed refer to Proto-Italic, though the Proto-Italic article just redirects back to Italic.