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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am confident Maa Saraswati is just a decade or two away from reoccupying the place she had.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&
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Post 11:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ancient latin(father lang.),<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Unless Romanians are Roman descendants, it cannot be their father language. As far as I am aware. Romanians were a Slavic people originally and Rome conquered Romania, in which case Latin at that time would have been what English is to Indians (language of the foreign victors and eventual lingua franca). In that case, it would today merely be a classical language for Romanians, though with the country itself being Orthodox by far, I would have expected Greek to be the classical language people there learned.
The way I meant the term 'father tongue' to be used is in a totally different sense. In using 'father' I meant to imply a close, loving, 'biological' and spiritual affinity, as is the case with 'mother' in the term Mother Tongue.
- Latin would therefore be the father language of the Romans, with the local regional Italic or other Romance languages being the mother languages of most Romans from the suburbs in those early times.
- Samskritam is our father language, because we are Hindus and Hindus gave rise to that language: it was developed in India, by Indians and it is has been our national language.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am confident Maa Saraswati is just a decade or two away from reoccupying the place she had.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Rajesh_g, Tataastu times infinity.Post 11:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ancient latin(father lang.),<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Unless Romanians are Roman descendants, it cannot be their father language. As far as I am aware. Romanians were a Slavic people originally and Rome conquered Romania, in which case Latin at that time would have been what English is to Indians (language of the foreign victors and eventual lingua franca). In that case, it would today merely be a classical language for Romanians, though with the country itself being Orthodox by far, I would have expected Greek to be the classical language people there learned.
The way I meant the term 'father tongue' to be used is in a totally different sense. In using 'father' I meant to imply a close, loving, 'biological' and spiritual affinity, as is the case with 'mother' in the term Mother Tongue.
- Latin would therefore be the father language of the Romans, with the local regional Italic or other Romance languages being the mother languages of most Romans from the suburbs in those early times.
- Samskritam is our father language, because we are Hindus and Hindus gave rise to that language: it was developed in India, by Indians and it is has been our national language.