Different Languages and their features

1. Languages
Akash sharma
Tanjeela
Shaleen
Veerian
prerna

3. Greek
• Greek (Eλληνικά), the language of one of the major
civilizations and one of the greatest literatures of
the world.
• It has been spoken in the southern Balkans since
the early part of the second millennium BC.
• Mycenaean Greek, was the language of the
Mycenaean civilization (16th century BC onward).
• Classical (or Ancient) Greek, known throughout
the Roman empire, was the language of the
Classical period of Greek civilization.

4. • Koine ‘common’ Greek, a fusion of of various
Greek dialects with the dialect of Athens.
• Modern Greek developed from Koine Greek
which is spoken today.
English Greek
Academy
Akademeia ‘grove of Akademos’, a legendary
Athenian of the Trojan War tales on whose
estate Plato taught his school.
alphabet
alphabetos, from alpha + beta, first two letters
of the Greek alphabet
psalm psalmos ‘song sung to a harp,’
hemi- hemi ‘half’
-phobia -phobia, from phobos ‘fear’

5. Latin
It is an ancient Italic language.
Particularly used in biology taxonomy
Many words of English are borrowed from
Latin.
The works of Roman writers and poets, such
as Ovid and Virgil are widely studied
throughout the world.

6. English From Latin
audio
‘I hear,’ 1st person singular present
indicative of audire ‘to hear’
-dict-
dicere ‘speak, tell, say’ in dictate,
dictionary, predict, contradict,
-ject-
jacere ‘to throw’ in eject, reject, project,
inject
-pend-
pendere ‘to hang’ in pendulum, pendant,
depend, impend
-script/scribe-
scribere ‘to write’ in scribe, describe,
inscribe, prescribe
-port-
portare ‘to carry’ in deport, import,
comport, transport

7. Sanskrit
• Sanskrit (originally संस्कृ ता
वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, "refined speech") is the
primary liturgical language of Hinduism
• Vedic Sanskrit:
• Language of the Vedas
• Traced as early as 1200-1700 BC
• Works by famous Sanskrit dramatists
include Śhudraka, Bhasa, Asvaghosa and
Kalidasa (Abhijñānashākuntala)

8. Sanskrit English
Naas Nose
Madhyam Middle
Pipalli Pepper
Lubh Desire/love
Patha Path

9. Spanish
• It is a list of English language words whose
origin can be traced to the Spanish language.
• Many of them are identical in other Romance
languages
• Most these words came to English from
Castilian and American Spanish dialects

10. • Spanish is the official (or national) language
of Argentina, Bolivia
(with Quechua and Aymara), Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba and many other countries.
• Latin American Spanish has also borrowed
words from the Indian languages.
Spanish From Arabic (al =
definite article)
English
adobe al-tob ‘th brick’ adobe
albaricoque al-birquuq apricot
alcachofa al-jarshuuf artichoke
álgebra algebra

11. French
• French (le français) is a Romance language,
belonging to the Indo-European family.
• The third most spoken language in Europe, after
German and English.
• It Replaced Latin as the most important language of
diplomacy and international relations in the 17th
century.
• It retained this role till middle of the 20th century
when it was replaced by English.

12. English French
Money monnaie'chaise
Road Route
Table Table
Flower Fleur
Bottle Bouteille
Air Air
Garden Jardin

13. • German(Deutsch) is a West Germanic language. It
derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic
branch of Indo-European language family.
• A number of words are derived from latin and greek
and, fewer from French and English.
• It is the second most spoken language after English.
• It is a pluricentric language(Austrian-German, Swiss
German).
• Earliest glosses from the 6th century A.D. until 1534
when M. Luther converted bible in German.

14. Fun facts about german
• False friends:- ‘gift’- poison.
• Long words:-’
indfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabe
nübertragungsgesetz‘ means delegation of
supevision law, and
‚Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz’ means
growth acceleration act.
• Words in common:- ‘bar’ means bear, rest
similarity.

15. Conclusion