How are several european languages connected with latin languages?
All European languages except Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Basque belong to the Indo-European language family. A number of Indian languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Singhalese and Punjabi also belong to this family. Within this family there are other smaller groups. Latin, Romanian, French, Italian and Spanish belong to a group known as ‘Romance’ – after the Romans. Over time these languages have influenced and borrowed from eachother. English belongs to the Germanic group – but has borrowed extensively also from Latin and French. Other groups are ‘Germanic’ (Dutch, English, Swedish …), ‘Slavic’ (Russian, Bulgarian …), ‘Celtic’ (Welsh, Breton, Cornish …). Some languages are Indo-European but in groups of their own – such as Albanian and Greek. It is often wrongly asserted that French, Italian etc. ‘grew out of’ Latin. This is based on the false assumption that because Latin is ‘dead’, that it must somehow be the ‘root’. Actually, Latin and other Romance languages all develope
