Have you ever wondered why English is considered a Germanic language, yet borrows many words from French? In her map of the lexical distances between European languages, writer Teresa Elms uses linguistic research by Kostiantyn Tyshchenko in Metatheory of Linguistics to demonstrate the vocabulary divergence among all the major languages of Europe. In the chart,… Continue reading How Far Apart Are English and French, Italian and Spanish? Here’s a Chart of the Lexical Distances between European Langauges
