Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
Which Old Indo-European Languages do you speak/can you understand?
Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
Is English "old?"
I can read a little German, Dutch, little bit of Russian and Romanian. I used to be able to speak French, but all I remember really are the numbers, days, months, random words and alphabet.. I'm currently studying a non-IndoEuropean language, Hungarian.
Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
Dutch and English. German I can read, but I'm not so good at writing and speaking it. I have some rudimentary knowledge of Latin, French, and ancient Greek.
What exactly do you mean by 'old' though? I suppose at least Latin and ancient Greek qualify.
AW: Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
Hungarian is not a language, but a throat disease. Same with Finnish and Basque.
And all my youth passed by sad-hearted,
the joy of Spring was never mine;
Autumn blows through me dread of parting,
and my heart dreams and longs to die.
- Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850)
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
AW: Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
I speak or at least halfway understand German, English, Dutch, Koine, Latin and Spanish.
And all my youth passed by sad-hearted,
the joy of Spring was never mine;
Autumn blows through me dread of parting,
and my heart dreams and longs to die.
- Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850)
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
I can Avestan, Persian*, English, German*, Italian, Kurdish*.
Beside these I learn Latin*, Russian, Arabic and French.
Later I will also do my Doctor in Iranian languages.
*=These languages I love
AW: Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
How about Sanskrit, Farsi and Urdu?
And all my youth passed by sad-hearted,
the joy of Spring was never mine;
Autumn blows through me dread of parting,
and my heart dreams and longs to die.
- Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850)
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Re: AW: Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
Farsi is Persian. Modern Persian changed the general Persian P->F.Originally Posted by Phlegethon
Parsi->Farsi
Urdu I understand a bit, because it has so many Iranian loanwords.
Sanskrit to Avestan is the same as Dutch to German.
AW: Re: AW: Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand?
Sure about that?
And all my youth passed by sad-hearted,
the joy of Spring was never mine;
Autumn blows through me dread of parting,
and my heart dreams and longs to die.
- Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850)
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: Which old Indo-European languages do you speak/can you understand
Yes, but what is Koine?
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