At 3/24/09 10:24 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:
At 3/24/09 09:43 PM, burnoutfool wrote:
Their nothing alike...Finnish is a norse language and latin is well LATIN...they are complete opposites.
To be technical, there's no such thing as a norse language.
But the term is still valid, since in old times, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes and Icelanders all spoke the same language, Old Norse.
But as time passed, The countries got their own dialects and eventually their own languages, 'Cept Iceland, which was so isolated and poor, the language didn't change at all, so we still speak it to this day.
But yeah, Germanic is a more appropriate term since it is broader, and Germanic languages are pretty much the only ones where Conjugation comes into play, so you need to cover that whole group in one term.