• samus12345@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’d have to get a list of every country considered “western” and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. “Nearly every” one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.

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        Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.

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              2 months ago

              It has made finding actually useful information harder nowadays, but I’ll still accept the blame for this one.