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I don't see the point of reading ancient Greek written in Latin alphabet - a translation in modern languages might serve better when one cannot read ancient Greek. I'm pretty sure that modern scholars that read ancient Greek texts do so in the original Greek form. The latter is true for the majority of ancient Greek words in modern European vocabularies, as Latin itself was greatly influenced by Greek and adopted many words, definitions and notions.
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Many words in English and other European languages come from Latin, but also, many words come from ancient Greek, directly or via Latin. The Latin alphabet, in turn, is the base of Western European alphabets, while Greek is the base of Eastern European ones (Cyrillic alphabet). The Greek alphabet is not that difficult to learn and understand, in fact, the Latin alphabet is a derivative of the Greek one and many letters are similar or common. Greek has different dialects, varies considerably over time, and can take quite different forms in different literary genres Latin is somewhat more uniform, but I fear that it is a rather clunking and constipated language (you might gather that it is a Hellenist speaking here ).Īnyone seriously studying ancient Greek history and culture, to the extent of wanting to be able to consult primary sources and reach an independent judgement about them, needs to be able to read ancient Greek, although many translations are available for those who are taking more a casual interest, or are studying Greek culture and history as a subsidiary subject as an undergraduate or at school. Latin feels much more familiar to a native English-speaker than Greek (although the sentence-structure in Greek seems more natural, and it has a definite article, and things like that which make it more like English in some respects). I believe that 4 or 5% of English words are of Greek origin, while about five times as many are of Latin origin (although it is not so simple to estimate the latter because so many words of French origin are derived from Latin). I'm afraid that this makes them quite difficult to learn, and unless one has a real flair for learning languages, I think one really needs some tutoring to get going. I don't believe that learning Latin would help one learn, say, the Japanese language. Do a lot of English words come from Ancient Greek? Is it fair to say that Ancient Greek one of the building blocks of language too? I'm sure that Latin is only the building block of language in the western world. I know that a lot of English words come from Latin, so learning Latin helps expand one's vocabulary in English. I've heard people say that Latin is the building block of language. Or is it virtually unheard of for history scholars in 2020 to read books using the Ancient Greek language?
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When scholars in the English speaking world in 2020 read books in the Ancient Greek language, do these scholars usually read a book in Ancient Greek that uses the Ancient Greek language but the individual letters are in the Roman alphabet, or do American/British scholars reading ancient Greek today read books in the Ancient Greek language, do these scholars actually read a book using all the letter of the Greek alphabet such as the alpha symbol (I don't know how to write this symbol with my keyboard, but you know what i am writing about) and the delta symbol, etc ? However, I believe that the Ancient Greeks had their own alphabet, which is probably called the Ancient Greek alphabet. For instance, Ancient Greek and/or Ancient Latin might use a totally different grammar structure than English.ĭoes Ancient Greek use a totally different grammar structure than English?ĭoes Ancient Latin use a totally different grammar structure than English?Īncient Latin uses the Roman alphabet just like English, so I don't think I would have to learn a new alphabet to learn Latin. It occurred to me that learning ancient languages might entail more than just learning the foreign language equivalent of English words. I was hoping people here could teach me about this.
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I've thought about buying Rosetta Stone software or maybe some sort of other type of software for learning Ancient Latin and Ancient Greek.