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- 3. Greek Greek (E了了侶僚旅虜略), the language of one of the major civilizations and one of the greatest literatures of the world. It has been spoken in the southern Balkans since the early part of the second millennium BC. Mycenaean Greek, was the language of the Mycenaean civilization (16th century BC onward). Classical (or Ancient) Greek, known throughout the Roman empire, was the language of the Classical period of Greek civilization.
- 4. Koine common Greek, a fusion of of various Greek dialects with the dialect of Athens. Modern Greek developed from Koine Greek which is spoken today. English Greek Academy Akademeia grove of Akademos, a legendary Athenian of the Trojan War tales on whose estate Plato taught his school. alphabet alphabetos, from alpha + beta, first two letters of the Greek alphabet psalm psalmos song sung to a harp, hemi- hemi half -phobia -phobia, from phobos fear
- 5. Latin It is an ancient Italic language. Particularly used in biology taxonomy Many words of English are borrowed from Latin. The works of Roman writers and poets, such as Ovid and Virgil are widely studied throughout the world.
- 6. English From Latin audio I hear, 1st person singular present indicative of audire to hear -dict- dicere speak, tell, say in dictate, dictionary, predict, contradict, -ject- jacere to throw in eject, reject, project, inject -pend- pendere to hang in pendulum, pendant, depend, impend -script/scribe- scribere to write in scribe, describe, inscribe, prescribe -port- portare to carry in deport, import, comport, transport
- 7. Sanskrit Sanskrit (originally 爐伍爐伍爐爛 爐むぞ 爐朽ぞ爐爛 sa畊sk畊t vk, "refined speech") is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism Vedic Sanskrit: Language of the Vedas Traced as early as 1200-1700 BC Works by famous Sanskrit dramatists include hudraka, Bhasa, Asvaghosa and Kalidasa (Abhij単nashkuntala)
- 8. Sanskrit English Naas Nose Madhyam Middle Pipalli Pepper Lubh Desire/love Patha Path
- 9. Spanish It is a list of English language words whose origin can be traced to the Spanish language. Many of them are identical in other Romance languages Most these words came to English from Castilian and American Spanish dialects
- 10. Spanish is the official (or national) language of Argentina, Bolivia (with Quechua and Aymara), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba and many other countries. Latin American Spanish has also borrowed words from the Indian languages. Spanish From Arabic (al = definite article) English adobe al-tob th brick adobe albaricoque al-birquuq apricot alcachofa al-jarshuuf artichoke 叩lgebra algebra
- 11. French French (le fran巽ais) is a Romance language, belonging to the Indo-European family. The third most spoken language in Europe, after German and English. It Replaced Latin as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations in the 17th century. It retained this role till middle of the 20th century when it was replaced by English.
- 12. English French Money monnaie'chaise Road Route Table Table Flower Fleur Bottle Bouteille Air Air Garden Jardin
- 13. German(Deutsch) is a West Germanic language. It derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of Indo-European language family. A number of words are derived from latin and greek and, fewer from French and English. It is the second most spoken language after English. It is a pluricentric language(Austrian-German, Swiss German). Earliest glosses from the 6th century A.D. until 1534 when M. Luther converted bible in German.
- 14. Fun facts about german False friends:- gift- poison. Long words:- indfleischetikettierungs端berwachungsaufgabe n端bertragungsgesetz means delegation of supevision law, and Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz means growth acceleration act. Words in common:- bar means bear, rest similarity.
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