aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg) (02/13/86)
In article<3550004@csd2.UUCP>, agrawal@csd2.UUCP (Mukul Agrawal) wrote this: > Also most European Languages are derived from English and have > a large number of words from common roots. Even many Esparanto words seem > to be having European roots. ... > Mukul Agrawal > agrawal@csd2 Huh? You don't really mean that, do you? I thought English came from Anglo- Saxon, with a little bit of proto-French filled in.... Certainly European languages have many common roots, since all of them had some kind of connection with Latin. Esperanto, on the other hand, has not only Romance (read direct-from-Latin) roots, but some stuff from Swahili and the Oriental languages too. Recently, I was flipping through a 26-language (including Esperanto) dictionary- it had the English word followed by the translation in 25 other languages. The Esperanto root was almost invariably an "average" of the other 24. -- ########################################################################## #D. Rosenberg "Disclaimer: I'd never want to hurt anyone with My Opinions" #(..{ihnp4,research,allegra}!alice!aer)