Speak Latin?

[IanCurtisWishlist]

After reading up on catalan, I see that it's very similar to French. Very interesting language..

[Sabron]

hansel was 100% correct.. there are 2 types of latin...Modern and Old.. The old lang is mortua .. ( dead ) as trhe modern one i dont know about.. But in highschool im taking latin.. intresting

[Oneironaut]

as trhe modern one i dont know about..

Sure you do. You see, Latin never "died", that is, there was no time when all the Latin speakers started speaking foreigners' languages for some reason. Instead, the various Latin dialects went their own ways after the fall of the Roman Empire, and gradually over time they became so different that they could no longer understand each other. We know these modern dialects of Latin as Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian and Romanian.

[Sabron]

Yes... All classified as the Romantic langs.. not romantic a love but as Roman based latin evovled forms

[BobBong]

There's a little Latin in all of us.

You just may not know it.

[stinkyattic]

What about the Basque dialect?
I know it's heavy on the French, but does it also have any Arabic/ North African influence from the Moors?

Defonce- that's a good word to add to the French I learned in school!

[Oneironaut]

Basque is a language in its own right, and it is the only European language that doesn't appear to be related to any other language we know of. It is probably the only surviving remnant of a language family that existed in Europe before the Celtic, Germanic and Roman peoples invaded.