History of Languages
Below are our 5 articles in the 'history of languages' category:
The history of German is a very long and detailed one. German in fairly unique among the major European languages in that it did not descend from Latin. In fact German largely stems from Germanic, ...
The history of Greek dates back a very long way. The language is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, in use today. It has a complex and varied history, spanning centuries and important discoveries ...
The history of Italian is a long and chequered one. Although Italian is not as old as the language of its near neighbour Greece, Italian is a direct descendant of Latin, the language that bound much ...
The history of Mandarin Chinese is not as easy to trace as the histories of most European languages. For a start, Mandarin Chinese can refer to the official language, which uses the dialect spoken in ...
It is no surprise that Portuguese and Spanish are so similar when you look at the history of Portuguese. In addition, the geographical location of Portugal, on the edge of the Iberian peninsula, ...
