• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Polish languange have half of its grammar rules ripped straight from Latin and surprisingly it works better than in Latin. Horror to learn for foreigners though, or so i heard.

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      9 months ago

      it’s not ripped from latin, latin and polish share ancestors and the cases were inherited into both from that ancestor.

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        9 months ago

        Yes both are indoeuropean languages though the distance to that common ground is far, but the grammar was ripped since Latin was mandatory for the educated class in the entire X-XIX centuries, included especially the period when Polish language was first used widely in writing.

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          i have no doubt latin influenced polish, even its grammar, but i very much doubt the cases of latin were transplanted into polish.