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by Manuel_D
823 days ago
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You stated that old Germany wasn't spoken in the ancient world, when the link I posted explicitly said it was. You also wrote that "the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the former to be their forefathers", which is also not true. The languages are indeed linguistically descended from old Germany. English is also less closely related to old German on account of the Norman french influence. The Czech language is Slavic [1], it's substantially different than German. It's more similar to Polish or Russian. Swedish and Danish are both North Germanic [2] rather than West Germanic [3] languages. Related to, but distinct from the West Germanic that would evolve into contemporary German. Yes, there is a lot factually wrong with your posts. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages |
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