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Latin vs Romanian | Can she understand them?

Ecolinguist

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Latin vs Romanian language speaker - This is part 2 of the episode in which we have a look at the similarities between Romanian and Latin. We test mutual intelligibility between Romanian and Latin by playing a language game. This is yet another video in the Romance Languages comparison series. Can you understand Romanian or Latin? 🤓

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20 Comments

@lancemannly 4 years ago

The fact that a person in the 21st century can recognize and understand any words from an ancestor language separated by nearly 2000 years at all is really very fascinating

@quask 5 years ago

Next up : Portugese vs Romanian vs French vs Italian vs Latin vs Spanish
The grand finale

@catheadoff 5 years ago (edited)

I speak portuguese, english and italian...I can understand (not every single word but...) I can understand latin and romanian <3 P.S: I love latin..I love romanian!

@ScorpioMartianus 5 years ago

What a pleasure to do more Latin and Romanian with these fabulous people! 😃 Thank you so much, Norbert, for the opportunity. Summāsque grātiās, Īrēnē et Mārtīnē! Și mulțumesc mult, Gia, pentru această experiență minunată. 🇷🇴 ♥️

@vladandrei09 5 years ago

Idea for a future video, compare Latin with all the romance languages to see which speaker will get most of it, :D

@lucianodavila8889 5 years ago

There’s a lot of words that I understood. In some of them, more the pronunciation than the writing. Examples:
2:12 - “două chestii” (portuguese: “duas questões”)
2:17 - “E în apartament, în casă?” (portuguese: “É em apartamento, em casa?”)
6:18 - “E un animal, ok?” (portuguese: “É um animal, ok?”)
8:28 - “mulți dinți” (portuguese: “muitos dentes”)
9:23 - “sânge” (portuguese: “sangue” - NOTE: “gue” has the pronunciation like “gay” in English, but without the sound of the Y letter)
11:57 - “fatal” (exactly the same in portuguese)

@christian.ity1917 5 years ago

Damn, I'm studying Portuguese, and I can't help but notice that Romanian accent sounds like Portuguese one

@BurstWalkthroughs 5 years ago

We need romanian, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

@guillermorivas7819 5 years ago

Do one with Sardinian (nuorese), Spanish, Latin, Italian, and Portuguese.

Gia the Romanian girl is absolutely stunning. Reminds me of a girl I know.

@JaKamille 5 years ago

Romanian is the next language I’m gonna learn 😍🇷🇴

@novaseeker 5 years ago

Very many Latin words are very close to their equivalent in Romanian, the pronunciation is just a little different, but if you would see them in writing you'd know exactly what they mean.

@oana-mariauliu5828 5 years ago

We also say "venin", not just "otravă". Speaking of snakes, we'd say "șarpe veninos"(venomous snake), not "șarpe otrăvitor".

@deovolente5867 5 years ago

Wow its so fascinating how Romanian sounds like a fusion of Latin and slavic languages.

@channel_no_longer_active 5 years ago

Romanian is such a beautiful language.

@dorianlepremier 5 years ago

Yes! My favourite languages... Romanian and Latin.

@TheInfinityy 5 years ago (edited)

My Russian heart melted when she said "Da" 😪💔😂

@norielgames4765 2 years ago (edited)

As a romanian I understood everything easily.
She struggled with the last one, but I got it instantly.
He said it has caput which sounds like romanian cap, meaning head.
Caudas sounds like romanian coada meaning tail.
Squamas sounds like Romanian scame meaning scales.
He said it repts, as in, drags itself along the ground. In Romanian o reptila means a reptile becuase it repts.
He said it has four members, quattor membres. In Romanian that would be patru membruri. Again, similar.

I just got everithing he said instantly.

Furthermore, one can make it easier to communicate with romans and other romance languages by using synonyms. In romanian most often you'd say otravă for venom but we also have venin, and I'd just drop any slavic synonyms and use the romance synonyms for ease of communication.

But seriously it's surprising how incredibly easy it is for me to understand spoken latin. I don't even need to look at the subtitles.

Of course the people here all spoke pretty slowly and clearly. That's not really natural speech. But I mean if some farmer from all the way in Lusitania met me, a daco-roman we'd definitely have different dialects and we'd both slow down our speech and enunciate every word correctly so it is easier for us to communicate. So again, I think I'd stand a change talking with Romans. I'd just tell them I'm like a romanized barbarian that learned from farmers all the way in Dacia which would explain my accent.