No, German is not a romance language.
No, German is not a romance language. It belongs to the Germanic language family, along with English, Dutch, and Swedish. Romance languages are derived from Latin and include languages like Spanish, French, and Italian.
no french is a romance language and German is a germanic language.
No. German has a few words that have Latin origins, but since it is not a Romance language, the Latin influences are not common.
The two chief Indo-European language groups represented in Western Europe are Romance-French and Italian and Germanic-German and English.Germanic and Romance.
The reason why english is a germanic language and not a romance language is because when the romans kicked the germans out of rome. the germans were so mad that they took at lot from other languages around the time such as french and spanish and put there own german spin on them.
No, French was primarly the romance language, along with Italian but English is a secondary romance language.
Yes. The Romance Languages are the modern descendants of Latin, the language of Rome, whence the word "Romance."
German is not a Latin based language. German is a West Germanic language German is not a Latin based language because it is not a romance language. A Romance language is a language that is derived directly from Latin. They inlude Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. German does, however, have some words from Latin because the Germanic tribes interacted with the Latin speaking peoples when they overthrew Rome. However, the great majority of Latin words in German were adopted from the time of the Renaissance onwards. English is also a Germanic language. Many similarities can be seen between German and English, espcially with cognates. Sometimes, words only differ with a couple of letters. Haus...House Maus...Mouse Hund...Dog (Hound) There is a school of thought that says, by replacing German letter combinations with English letter combinations, you often come up with German words. See the examples above ("u" and "au" for the English "ou"). Although, this isn't always true, very often it works.
Latin was the language spoken by the ancient Romans and became the basis for the Romance languages, which are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. The word "romance" in referring to the languages and cultures of certain European countries, does not mean the hearts and flowers stuff, such as in the "romance" novels. It is an adjective derived from the word Roman or Rome.
A Romance language does not mean it is a language that is sweet and charming, though they usually are. What "Romance" means is that the languages all come from a specific language group. In the case of French, it is considered a Romance language because it is rooted in Latin, the primary language of the Romans. Other Romance languages are Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.French is a romance language (derived from Latin) and it is believed to have developed from the street or gutter language spoken in the Roman Empire.
All romance languages branched off from Latin.
TurkeyTurkey does not use a Romance language as its official language; the other two nations do, however
The Germanic languages (such as English and German) came from Indo-European which started in the Fertile Crescent area (middle east region) Indo-European spread north and as people became more isolated, Indo-European branched off (Germanic, Slavic, and Romance languages are examples) As people in these sub groups split off, their language chnaged again, giving us more languages such as Russian(slavic), Latvian(Slavic) Italian(romance) Spanish(romance) English(Germanic) High German(Germanic) and low German(Germanic) The main German we know today is High German, and that is it's origin.