I recently came across a review of a book in New Englander and Yale Review (August 1859)
Title: Notices of Books: The "Latin" Question [pp. 801-802]
It discussed in detail whether Greek is the closest related language to Latin.
What do you think of the above?
Title: Notices of Books: The "Latin" Question [pp. 801-802]
It discussed in detail whether Greek is the closest related language to Latin.
I have never heard this argument before, but I do not even know GreekThe "Latin" question is not yet settled. The exact relation of the Latin language to the Greek is still a matter of debate...
Dr. Augustus Schlecher of Bonn... holds that the Latin and Greek form a family group or pair, being more closely allied to each other than to any other Indo-European family. He supposes that the Latin and Greek people continued together for some time after their separation from the main stock. See his Die Sprachen Europas, Bonn, 1850, p.135.
C. Lottner of Berlin contends, on the contrary, that the Latin is as closely allied to some of the northern families, particularly to the Teutonic, as it is to the Greek... Roman mythology is connected with the Teutonic and Sanskrit as well as with the Greek.
What do you think of the above?