As in the case of each and every language spoken in the world, borrowed words from other idioms are very common and English is certainly no exception when it comes to this lexical enrichment method.슠The English language as we know it today has been influenced very much during the Middle Ages. The first major phase…
The Transylvanian Saxon dialect is a rather old and conservative dialect of the German language that was mainly spoken in Transylvania, central Romania prior to 1989, before most of the Transylvanian Saxons emigrated abroad (it is still spoken there but in considerably smaller numbers than it used to be), most notably to unified Germany but…
This brief article showcases the correct semantic usage of the term ‘Viking’. Many people tend to mistake the term ‘Viking’ for the broader sense of all Norsemen (i.e. the early medieval Scandinavians). In fact, the term only denotes the occupation of a Norseman and not the ethnicity of the respective individual. Regarding the etymology of…
Below are represented 10 distinct maps which showcase the languages spoken in Europe. According to the mainstream linguistic classification, in Europe there are 6 major Indo-European language families, namely Romance, Slavic, Germanic, Baltic, Celtic, and Hellenic (alongside a non-Indo-European family, specifically the Finno-Ugric linguistic branch which comprises Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian). Beside the aforementioned branches,…
Below is a list consisting of 10 interesting linguistic facts you should know about the German language. Thus, without further ado, here are the facts: 1) German is a Germanic language, part of the West Germanic sub-branch, and is spoken by around 110 million native speakers worldwide, of whom most live in Germany, Switzerland, Austria,…
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