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Thoughts about Rome, travel, and Language - 3-24-2022 - 04-08-2022
I remember a linguistic professor I knew said "language is everything"
I thought about it over time and noticed how latin is used on dollar bills, in art terms, in anatomy for example the names of different muscles and nerves, and for the names of plants or animals.
Romance languages use the Roman alphabet. This group of languages doesn't include English but I'd argue it is an arbitrary classification considering that in linguistically defined terms German and English don't fit the category, but they use the alphabet and are European.
Romance languages - Wikipedia
The six most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (489 million), Portuguese (283 million), French (77 million), Italian (67 million), Romanian (24 million), and Catalan (14.5 million[2]).
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Latin is named after Latinus, an ancient tribe in a district around what is now Rome
I bet many of you are familiar with the phrase "All roads lead to Rome"
all roads lead to Rome - Wiktionary
It is a phrase at least 1000 years old.
Is it fair to say "All languages lead to Rome"?
Not all, but considering half of the worlds population speaks a language which uses the roman alphabet, I'd suggest it's about as literal as All roads lead to Rome.
Even Vietnam in modern times began to use the Roman alphabet for the Vietnamese language, although with slight modifications to modify the tones of certain words. Some languages had no written form and adopted the Roman alphabet
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Finally, credit should be given to Johannes Gutenberg who with the church made a great advance in printing literature. Imagine how this sped up the development of literacy and of the evolution of language when today we can see how Twitter alone can shape memes and language via text. I remember in school being told the first printers were used to publish Christian books. This again takes us back to Rome and the Vatican zone. Printing not only texts, but illustrations.
Johannes Gutenberg - Wikipedia
It's as though Rome is a place where language, movement, and sound all come together and extend outward across the world. I remember playing videogames based in Europe with paladins and I was wondering what the term meant, it turns out they were named after the central hill around ancient Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_Hill
RE: Thoughts about Rome, travel, and Language - 3-24-2022 - 05-03-2022
I think this is very interesting in 2020 a tomb beneath the Roman senate building was discovered which is where legend says the founder of Rome, Romulus was interred.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51587892
Between this and the city of Aten in Egypt being discovered in 2020, ancient history is definitely emerging.
RE: Thoughts about Rome, travel, and Language - tadeus - 05-05-2022
There is an interesting german book:
Weltbilderschütterung. Die richtige Entzifferung der Hieroglyphenschriften
You can download it here.
About Erhard Landmann:
Quote:Erhard Landmann (born March 19, 1938, died February 25, 2018) was a book author, lay linguist, and proponent of preastronautics. Landmann claimed that all languages descended from Old High German. In the past extraterrestrials had visited the earth and mankind was descendant of these extraterrestrials. The language of these visitors is according to Landmann the "Elidiutische", the language of the God Eli. The Elidiutische has preserved best in the old German language, the old Maya and Aztec language, the language of the Easter island and Maori. With the help of Old German, therefore, all ancient languages can be interpreted, according to Landmann. The old Greek is a dialect of old high German "Dorer" (Thuringian). The word God is said to be related in many languages to the ahd. The word God is to go back in many languages on the ahd. word for "German" and "people", namely on "teot, tiud". The Bible of the Christians is actually a kind of history book of the Germans and was originally written in German.
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