BASICALLY THEY DRAW FAMILY TREES FOR LANGUAGES LIKE:
LATIN
SPANISH FRENCH ITALIAN
PORTUGUESE
IF I COULD DRAW LINES IT'D BE CLEARER, but basically Spanish French and Italian all came from Latin, and likewise Portuguese used to be Spanish. Anyhow their relatedness is why all those languages are called Romance languages, it doesn't have anything to do with them sounding ~romantic~. BUT ANYWAY CHINESE AND JAPANESE ARE FROM TOTALLY DIFFERENT FAMILIES.
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Date: 2010-01-14 11:01 pm (UTC)LATIN
SPANISH FRENCH ITALIAN
PORTUGUESE
IF I COULD DRAW LINES IT'D BE CLEARER, but basically Spanish French and Italian all came from Latin, and likewise Portuguese used to be Spanish. Anyhow their relatedness is why all those languages are called Romance languages, it doesn't have anything to do with them sounding ~romantic~. BUT ANYWAY CHINESE AND JAPANESE ARE FROM TOTALLY DIFFERENT FAMILIES.