Which languages have almost equal ratio of loanwords and native words?
Which languages have almost equal ratio of loanwords and native words?
James Clark
Liam Jenkins
Polish
Robert Foster
english?
Ryan Rivera
japanese
Kayden Smith
Dutch is 51% romance.
Although we also have a relatively high amount of greek words and such.
William Green
Vietnamese
Carter Rogers
Dutch is also 8% English.
Jason Thompson
Bullshit, then why does it sound like autistic german?
Matthew Taylor
Even Dutch posters often think it's bullshit, but it's a fact. According to a professor who literally wrote the dictionary about the origin of Dutch words.
onzetaal.nl
And when it comes to pronunciation Dutch is a lot close to Italian and Spanish than German. In fact, on Jow Forums you can hear Croats and Serbs able to pronounce Dutch correctly without any practise.
Jace Cruz
Well the Netherlands were a Spanish colony so it's no surprise
Isaac Williams
Eh, I don't know if it comes from that. But our elite used to speak a lot of French. And we were also part of the Roman empire. The Romans taught us how to read and write.
Colton Reyes
German has a consonant shift, which we didn't have.
And English messes up all vowels.
Easton Richardson
a lot of languages have two words for the same think, one native and one loan.
English is an example of this, were many words have an english/germanic and french/latin derived synonym.
Jonathan Gomez
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Japanese can't speak without using foreign words
Dylan Sanchez
English.
Persian is interesting as it is ~30% Arabic and ~30% Turkic, so native Persian words are already a minority.
Russian has thousands of Church Slavonic doubles taken in XVII-XVIII centuries alongside native East Slavic words, like gorod-grad, golova-glava, molochny-mlechny, storozh-strazh, derevo-drevo etc. Those aren't foreign per se, but still notable South Slavic.
Zachary Ramirez
IIRC Persian has around 45% Arabic words, Finnish has around 40% Swedish words and English has around 50% Greco-Roman
Aiden Butler
Oh, thanks, that reminds me. Japanese and Korean are like 50%+ Chinese loanwords, iirc Vietnamese has about the same amount of loans.
Thai has many Sanskrit loanwords, but supposedly not as much as half the language.
Adrian Martin
Yeah no.
Jacob Allen
Thai also counts 1-10 in chinese
Austin Davis
Russian and Sanskrit share noticeable amount of words, but so do other Slavic languages. 1000petals.wordpress.com
James Smith
What's the correct percentage then?
Jace Stewart
>40% swedish
Jose Lee
cute tbH
Kevin Long
Very low.
Jason Reyes
Isn't that because Sanskrit is heavily related with Protobaltoslavic?
Jaxon Green
Maltese is like that. Our vocabulary is more or less half Arab half Italian.
Blake Johnson
Any IE language shares words with Sanskrit. Because Balto-Slavic are Satem and so are Indo-Iranian, of course they are similar. Especially since modern Iranian and Indian languages have so many Arabic and Turkic loanwords not present in Slavic.
Funny how we have that "rondovery" "Slavo-Arian" "pagans" larping as a mix between imagined Slavic paganism and some distortions of modern Hinduism because "woah I like kinda understand one in five words when Sanskrit is written in Cyrillics, we're totally Arians".
Isaac Morgan
norwegian
Colton Smith
Because the most actively used words are of Germanic origin. "Eye" and "want" are much more likely to meet in everyday speech than "delirium" or "compound".