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[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Romanian, Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Venetian, probably a number of other dialects, are also Latin descendants.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd have to get a list of every country considered "western" and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. "Nearly every" one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, my google-fu wasn't up to the task. That's about what I was expecting.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Just blame AI, that's what's been working for me

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

It has made finding actually useful information harder nowadays, but I'll still accept the blame for this one.