NationStates Jolt Archive

I was just thinking about languages and was curious as to what languages NSers prefer. Personally I'm into the germanic or scandinavian languages.

Poll is made of fail for being so Euro-centric, but of those listed, the Romance one wins, to be followed by Slavic.

erm, sorry. was in a bit of a hurry when I made this, just listed the ones that quickly came to my head, which happened to be European. is there a way to change it?

Poll is made of fail for being so Euro-centric, but of those listed, the Romance one wins, to be followed by Slavic.
QFT

I refuse to vote, my option is not listed.

Worst poll ever.

Whee West-Germanic for having English in it (the greatest language ever).

Greatest poll ever.

I suppose my language falls into the Uralic category. Since it's not usually considered good manners to vote your own, I'll say West Germanic, because I like English. It's such an easy language.

I might be wrong about this, but don't Scandinavian languages belong in the Germanic family?

I might be wrong about this, but don't Scandinavian languages belong in the Germanic family?

they fall in the North Germanic category

Indian, or at least north and central Indian. Those Tamil folks talk too damn fast.

Though I guess Indian could be linked to Romance, as Latin and Sanskrit have a common origin.

Uh oh I'ma hafta call up my Tamil cohorts to pound you for talking trash about Tamil.

BTW Sanskrit has a common origin with English, Russian, and German too.

Indian, or at least north and central Indian. Those Tamil folks talk too damn fast.

Though I guess Indian could be linked to Romance, as Latin and Sanskrit have a common origin.

they fall in the North Germanic category

Oh, OK then.

Poll is made of fail for being so Euro-centric,

Yeah, it completely ignores the rest of the Aryan language groups and there were still poll slots! :O I cant belive I'm agreeing with you on something...

Uh oh I'ma hafta call up my Tamil cohorts to pound you for talking trash about Tamil.

BTW Sanskrit has a common origin with English, Russian, and German too.

I haven't heard anything about that. I know that it's been shown that there are definite links between Latin and Sanskrit. Even many of the words are similar in pronunciation and meaning (duherter is the Sanskrit word for daughter, for instance.)

Yeah, it completely ignores the rest of the Aryan language groups and there were still poll slots! :O I cant belive I'm agreeing with you on something...

It sullies me more.

For those of you who did not like this poll, why don't you make your own poll? Personally, I thought it was mediocre, as the choices really were a bit limited, but not bad enough that I would say "all of these choices suck".

On the topic of language families and their origin, all of those languages are related, except for the Uralic. All the others come from a proto-indo-european language that branched out into the languages of Europe, Persia and India (the Germanic, Slavic, Romance, Sanskrit and some others).

I chose Slavic as my favourite, and my second choice would have been Uralic (those Finns really know how to make use of double letters and it looks really strange on paper, same with Hungarian with their use of silent "Z"s). My favourite group in the world is the Sintic family, which includes Chinese for their ridiculously simple grammar and tonal sounds.