I don't think that is true. Neither German nor the Scandinavian languages do. But all European languages do come out of the Indo-European family of languages (except for Basque, or Hungarian or, Finnish. I believe that Finnish and Hungarian are related, however). All the Romance languages do share a Latin lineage, however.

Allow me to correct myself, some does.

And scandinavian languages does, I'm danish myself, though Islandic and finnish doesn't.

I still don't think that Danish (for example) has Latin roots. Neither does Hungarian. Neither does Basque. I still think you mean, Indo-European, which, itself, comes out of Sanskrit. Of course, we cannot just speculate. It is a question of fact, not of opinion. It needs to be looked up.

By the way, Basque is called (by linguists) an "isolate" because it is connected to no other languages. Fino-Hungarian is an isolate group in Europe. In Asia, Korean and Japanese are isolates.

I'm quite sure it does.

The Goths (germans) was in the end of Roman Empire the henchmen, since romans grew decadent and didn't wanna do the dirtywork themselfs. Even a huge crowd of Goths was allowed to immigrate to an area north east of Italy, and thereby the Goths evolved their language based on latin.

It's a fact that old danish are heavily influenced by german language. Also danes would tour most of europe by year 800+ and let our language evolve by that.

According to my best knowledge, the Romance languages are derived from Latin. The Scandinavian languages are not. Both the Romance and the Scandinavian languages are derived from Indo-European, which is, in turn, derived from Sanskrit.

I find it interesting that in speaking english, we often seem to be speaking many languges. Some persons are multi-lingual and are able to understand and speak in many different forms. Are these dialects? Entire languages?
The regional dialects aside, we often have difficulty understanding one another.
I really don't know anything about latin, but my impression is of a language more direct, less equivocal.

This is WIDE open to communication as a whole

Today's scandinavian tounges (save Finnish) does not resemble 800 AD's language at all.

44]What has that to do with it?

Today's scandinavian tounges (save Finnish) does not resemble 800 AD's language at all.

Hi ! That's pretty international English. As a Dutchspeaking European I find it harder and harder to understand English. Modern variations I mean. I can not understand modern rap to name a thing.

At home we speak a mix of English, Dutch and Spanish. Latin if we need too. Normally with family we speak a Frisian "dialect", unless are US one-lingual aunties present. In the neigbourhood I donnot use difficult words.

Languages tell so much about a people. Tribes US would call it. The Franks, the Belges, Angels, Saxons etc. All with accounts, ancestery, rituals and religions. Traces of these Old Languages are preserved in Names.

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I think context is the hardest part for us to learn ,when a language differs from our own. I have fascination for Afrikaans, both the context and the origin. It is so very different than my own language.

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I'm quite sure it does.

The Goths (germans) was in the end of Roman Empire the henchmen, since romans grew decadent and didn't wanna do the dirtywork themselfs. Even a huge crowd of Goths was allowed to immigrate to an area north east of Italy, and thereby the Goths evolved their language based on latin.

It's a fact that old danish are heavily influenced by german language. Also danes would tour most of europe by year 800+ and let our language evolve by that.

According to my best knowledge, the Romance languages are derived from Latin. The Scandinavian languages are not. Both the Romance and the Scandinavian languages are derived from Indo-European, which is, in turn, derived from Sanskrit.