Re: My Hate List (Revised)

Am Montag000010, 10.02.2025 um 23:43 schrieb Physfitfreak:

On 2/10/25 2:13 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:

Luther was born in Eisleben and that city belonged to one of these tiny states.

  When a language is spoken, the speakers of that language automatically share features and traits. How old is German language? There's been German people as far back as German was spoken.
 

Well, no..
A language does not create ethnicity, but is kind of common denominator in any society, because without a common language you cannot speak with each other.
That's why within a single country (mostly) only a single language is spoken.
But this would make the language dependent of the land, because land cannot migrate, while people can (and then learn a new language abroad).
Ok, yes, Germany existed since ancient times, because that piece of Earth' surface existed long ago, even when there were no Germans or even no people at all, but crocodiles and dinosaurs lived in that country.
But dinos couldn't speak, German is most likely younger than the land.
TH