Willkommen in deutschen Amerika!Nikolaos dixit:Germanic America.... I think I'll shorten it to German America and keep it. From now on, I live in German America.
Because they don't speak neither Basque nor Catalan.Yeah but why Latin? Why call hispanic people Latinos?
Why not Spanish America or Hispanic America and call people Hispanic (like they do) or Hispano (which coincidentally is Hispanic in Spanish)
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Amice! Mexicvm est in America Septentrionalis.América Latina sounds natural to my ear, but 'Latin America' causes endless cataloguing/searching problems. Call the different parts of the continent, North, Central (i.e. México to Panamá inclusive) and South - and all is clear.
Quebec is a Latin American exclave. The Québécois have sought independence from Canada, too, largely on this particular reason. Spanish is increasingly being spoken (more than any other language) in the United States -- especially in the Southwest. We could technically ascribe that region as Latinized, right? Why? Because such states have traditionally have had Spanish speakers before it was the United States.Quebec is quite an interesting case: it is a large province (in fact the largest province in Canada) that primarily speaks a Latin-derived language, yet is not geopolitically a part of Latin America.
It is still in North America yet it shares much more with Latin America.Touché, Domine! I suppose that I personally find it hard to think of Mexico as in North America, because it is a (mainly) Spanish-speaking country. Geographically, it is, of course, part of that land mass.
Not to mention speakers of other languages with a much longer history of occupation than the Spanish.Because such states have traditionally have had Spanish speakers before it was the United States.
Very True. In contrast, the Native-American languages are isolated in small communities and declining substantially as time passes by.Not to mention speakers of other languages with a much longer history of occupation than the Spanish.
That's demonstrably untrue. The overwhelming majority of languages spoken in South America are non-Latin. If you're talking about which languages have the most speakers or are most dominant, that's a different matter, of course, and Spanish and Portuguese are then top of the list.Hence South America is referred to as Latin America, as (almost) all the languages spoken there are Latin derived. At least that's my reckoning/logic on the matter.
Salve, Aurifex.That's demonstrably untrue. The overwhelming majority of languages spoken in South America are non-Latin. If you're talking about which languages have the most speakers or are most dominant, that's a different matter, of course, and Spanish and Portuguese are then top of the list.
Salve,A good book to have on that subject is Ad infinitum: a biography of Latin, by Nicholas Ostler, thoroughly in-depth and enjoyable.
Another, more scholarly one, is The Regional Diversification of Latin, by Adams.