First Time Hearing Some European Languages (Part 1) | Reaction

[@andreavoros-marky4203]

I am so happy you liked my language. Greetings from Hungary. 😊

[@TheBorgfelder]

Basque belongs politically to Spain, but has its own culture and language.

[@jeffwalker9486]

There are many European languages, and dialects.There are three major groups, and a couple that don't really relate to any of them,like Finnish and Hungarian, they use the Latin Alphabet. The Three major groups are,The Latin languages, which are Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Romania, which has slavic influence. The next group is The Germanic languages, which consist of English, German,Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and I believe Estonian and Latvian, but am not sure.Then the other major group is Slavic, Which is Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian,Serbo-Croatish. Of course there are several more,Greek,Albanian also many dialects...

[@PoeticDream]

Estonian is together with Finnish and Hungarian. Latvian and Lithuanian are separate and are called Baltic languages. They're only 2.

[@jeffwalker9486]

@PoeticDream I met a guy from Finland and asked about similarities between Finnish and Hungarian and he said there aren't any,oh well I only speak English and German

[@PoeticDream]

@jeffwalker9486 Well, they're not similar, but they're in one language group with Estonian too. And Estonian does sound similar to Finnish and they can pretty much understand eachother.

[@andreavoros-marky4203]

​@@jeffwalker9486because they are part of the Finno-Ugric language family. Finnish and Estonian on the Finno branch, Hungarian on the Ugric. There are two more on the Ugric branch Khanty and Mansi both spoken in Siberia... So both originate from the Uralic terriroties but separated 1000s of years ago, influenced by different other languages etc. There are some root words we share but not much.

[@MLWitteman]

If you enjoy the Portuguese language. Look for some fado music will probably be your thing. Christina Branco is a nice musician to start with.

[@TheBorgfelder]

Prosecco is an italian word ;-)

[@Komona]

So, in Spain you don't only have one language, Spanish (or more proper Castillian/Castellano). You have a couple of other languages with a large amount of speakers such as Catalan, spoken in the northeastern parts down to Valencia, also on the Balearic islands like Mallorca and Ibiza). Then you have Galician which is spoken in the northwestern parts. Galician can be described as a bridge between Castellano and Portuguese. Then you have Basque, which is in fact not related to the previous languages at all. Nobody even knows where it comes from, as it's a linguistic isolate. Linguistics suspect that there was an iberian tribe that survived through Roman occupation and kept their language and culture. There are some other languages like Aragonese, but they are really small and barely anyone speak them. The previous 4 are much larger. Of course, Castellano ("Spanish") is by far the biggest, and people who grow up with Catalan or the others also learn Spanish in school.

[@ivowalvis9228]

Hihi, you just heard 4 Spanish dialects and Portogese, every nation here has more than one languige in Europe.

[@anashiedler6926]

well, except Austria. Our language is just considered a dialect of German. (at least by most people. In fact (written) austrian-german as well as (written) swiss-german are own languages, since they have their own grammar rules and a dictionary of their own.

[@wotislife2410]

They are not dialects, but languages.