Today, we could find that many languages has relation with ancient civilization.
civilization | period | language of type |
Ancient Chinese Civilization | BC2000- BC1200 | Ideograms |
Indus Valley Civilization | BC3300- BC1300 | Sanskrit |
Mesopotamia | BC3500- BC2300 | Sumerian |
Egypt | BC3500- BC2000 | Hieroglyph |
Ancient Greece | BC800- AC600 | Greek alphabet |
In Western Europe
GREEK LANGUAGE
The Greek language holds an important place in the histories of Europe, the more loosely defined "Western" world. Greek words have been widely borrowed into other Indo-European languages, that there are also influenced from Latin.
In 146 BC in fact, with the establishment of Roman rule over Greek lands, Roman and Hellenic cultures were mixed.
(Roman Empire – From 27BC with Ottoviano Augusto - To 395 with Teodosio I).
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
The Romance languages comprise all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of ancient Rome.
Between 350 BC and AD 150, the expansion of the Empire, together with its administrative and educational policies, made Latin the dominant native language in continental Western Europe.
ITALIAN
WIDE: ampio
NARROW: stretto
SPANISH
WIDE: de ancho
NARROW: estrecha
PORTUGUESE
WIDE: larga
NARROW: estreitas
FRENCH
WIDE: l'échelle
NARROW: étroite
Baltic peoples resisted Christianization longer than any other Europeans(just in1530 was printed Catechism) which delayed the introduction of writing and isolated their languages.
During the years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795), official documents were written in Polish, Ruthenian and Latin, with Lithuanian being mostly an oral language, with small quantities of written documents.
After the Partitions of Poland, much of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages were sometimes prohibited from being written down, or used publicly. from outside influence.
LITHUANIAN
WIDE: platus
NARROW: siauras
LATVIAN
WIDE: mēroga
NARROW: šaurs
GERMAN LANGUAGES
From Runic and Gothic alphabet, Christian priest who spoke and read Latin, start to write German Language with Latin Letter slightly modify.
The most widely spoken Germanic languages are English and German.
GERMAN
WIDE: breit
NARROW: schmal
ALBANIAN LANGUAGES
The Albanian language is a distinct Indo-European language that does not belong to any other existing branch. It probably come from the language group daco-tracio, spoken in Dacia (Roman province from 106 to III century).
It shares lexical isoglosses with Greek, Balto-Slavic, and Germanic.
ALBANESE
WIDE: gjerë
NARROW: i ngushtë
In Africa
There are an estimated 2,000 languages spoken in Africa. Most languages spoken in Africa belong to one of three large language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger-Congo.
ARABIC LANGUAGE (the most important Afroasiatic language)
Arabic is a Central Semitic language. Arabic has more speakers than any other language in the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as a first language, most of whom live in the Middle East and North Africa. t is the official language of 22 countries and it is the liturgical language of Islam since it is the language of the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book.
Arabic is often associated with Islam, but it is also spoken by Arab Christians. Some Muslims consider the Arabic language to be "the language chosen by God in which to speak to mankind".
A much more significant factor for most dialects is, as among Romance languages.
ARABIC
WIDE: واسعة (Wāsʻh)
NARROW: ضيق (Ḑyq)
Asian languages base on antic language from Ancient Chinese Civilization and Indus Valley Civilization, moreover After post era, Religion like Buddhism, Christ, Islam and Hindu changed many parts of language. Buddhism, Christ, Islam and Hindu changed many parts of language.
JAPANESE
wide : 広い(hiroi), big space for man
narrow : 狭い(semai), small space for man
CHINESE
wide : 寬(Kuān)
narrow : 窄(Zhǎi)
KOREA(NORTH and SOUTH)
wide : 넓은(neolb-eun)
narrow : 폭이 좁은(pog-i job-eun)
VITNAMESE
wide : rộng
narrow : thu hẹp
INDIC
wide : विस्तृत(Vistr̥ta)
narrow : संकीर्ण(Saṅkīrṇa)
TAILANDESE
wide : กว้าง(Kŵāng)
narrow : แคบ(Khæb)
INDONESIANO
wide : lebar
narrow : sempit
MALESE
wide : lebar
narrow : sempit
FILIPPINO
wide : malawak
narrow : - makitid
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