I don’t think it is akin; Welsh is almost completely different to English with only a few modern words in common. Just try reading some Welsh as an English speaker. It’s unintelligible.

Catalan is very much a Latinate language, and anyone who speaks Spanish or Italian or French (or even English) can guess the meaning of a lot of words and understand the grammar quite easily.

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Freak_NL 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

So by your logic those would be properly called Italian Spanish and French Spanish?

	▲	tenthirtyam 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe more like dialects of Latin? :-)

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apparent 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have never heard it claimed that English speakers can guess the meaning of a lot of Catalan words. Is this a common sentiment?

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kiliancs 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It is akin in that the same sort of mistaken political intrusion into linguistics was being made.