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- According to Sala et al. (1988), the fundamen-tal lexical core of Romanian comprises less words inherited from Latin than the other Romance lan-guages (Ro. 30% vs. It. 44%, Fr. 36%, Sp. 40%, Pt. 45%).
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It was estimated that about 38% of words in Romanian are of French and/or Italian origin (in many cases both languages); and adding this to Romanian's native stock, about 75%–85% of Romanian words can be traced to Latin.
In the case of English-French lexical similarity, at least two other studies estimate the number of English words directly inherited from French at 28.3% and 41% respectively, with respectively 28.24% and 15% of other English words derived from Latin, putting English-French lexical similarity at around 0.56, with reciprocally lower English ...
Romanian is a romance language like Catalan, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish so much of its core vocabulary is derived from Latin. Why then even in core vocabulary does Romanian so often seem to be based on different Latin roots than its sister languages?
- Romanian is a language that's been well established in the Balkan Sprachbund (which is a German term linguists use to talk about a collection of la...
- Regarding Romanian's history: it's a member of the Eastern Romance (sensu strictu) subfamily or the "Vlach" languages. The peculiarities of Romania...
- Romanian does, in fact, have a reflex of Latin ambulāre: a umbla "to walk". (There are reflexes of ire as well, though it's become a future modal)...
- One possibility is because of its relative isolation from the other Latin-based languages. Imagine you're looking at early Latin dialects diverging...
- An answer would be that Romanian is part of a different corpus of Latinized area of Europe than the rest of the surviving Romance languages.
- To be all fair and square to both sides of this discussion, the actual truth can go either way. However, in defense of those who say that Dacian w...
Romanian and Italian languages are closest romance languages from latin family. Though, it's interesting how a Romanian person can understand nearly 80% of Italian language, but for an Italian person it's difficult to understand many Romanian words, especially slavic ones, which it's not surprising. Reply reply. vlsdo.
According to Sala et al. (1988), the fundamen-tal lexical core of Romanian comprises less words inherited from Latin than the other Romance lan-guages (Ro. 30% vs. It. 44%, Fr. 36%, Sp. 40%, Pt. 45%).
Mar 23, 2020 · The ASJP list gives also some interesting results: as one would expect, the similarity between Italian and French decreases (remember, ASJP takes pronunciation into account and we know that French is closer to Italian in its written form than when it’s spoken), while Italian and Romanian get closer.
Jun 5, 2014 · Should we take the common denominator of Italian, as probably the most similar language to Latin, it has been argued that its lexical similarity to French could be of 89%, to Spanish of 78% and to Romanian of 77%.
