Do Romance languages come from Greek?

Greek is related to the Romance languages because they are both part of the larger Indo-European language family. It’s a more distant relationship than the languages within the Romance language family that includes languages west of Greece: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, France and strangely enough, Romanian.

What languages are based off Greek?

All Western language including Hebrew are base on Greek Language. Greek Language is the oldest language on Earth it come from Pre- Homer times. Ancient Greek are the base of Latin and modern Greek. Italian, French, Spanish and other languages are based on Latin.

What language category is Greek?

Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries.

What language is spoke in Greece?

Greek
The vast majority of the 10.7m population of Greece speak Greek, which is the country’s official language. The other languages spoken there are Macedonian (called “Slav-Macedonian” in Greece), Albanian, spoken in the centre and the south, Turkish, spoken by Muslim communities around the Aegean, Arumanian and Bulgarian.

Why is Greek so different from Latin?

Greek did not come from Latin. Some form of Greek or Proto-Greek has been spoken in the Balkans as far back as 5.000 years. The oldest ancestor of the Latin language, which was an Italic language goes back some 3.000 years. In other words: Greek is older than Latin, so there’s no way that Greek could come from Latin.

Why is Greek so different from other languages?

Ancient Greek has a different syntax and different suffixes than modern greek. Furthermore most of the words are similar but not identical. Thus all Greeks can understand the general idea of a text written in ancient greek and many times (if the text is easy and not philosophical) even everything.