Why French Sounds So Weird (Even to Italians)
Ever wondered why French, a Romance language, sounds nothing like its siblings Spanish or Italian? The secret lies in a unique history where Celtic and especially Germanic influences reshaped the…
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Romanian: A Latin Island in a Slavic Sea
While its heart beats with the rhythm of Latin, the Romanian language wears a coat woven from Slavic threads. Geographically separated from its Romance cousins, it developed unique features, from…
The Balkan Sprachbund: A Linguistic Melting Pot
What happens when unrelated languages live side-by-side for centuries? In the Balkans, languages as different as Albanian, Greek, and Romanian started borrowing each other's grammar, creating a unique "Sprachbund"—a linguistic…