Buenos Dias!
I finished the semantics comparisons!
Well sort of anyway, I gathered a total of 527 words in Latin,
translated them into each language, compared each word and tallied up
the points. I still have to put this information into a chi square
analysis. I'm not completely sure how I am going to do that, but I
will figure it out and publish the results.
For now however, without doing the
analysis and just looking at the overall raw scores, I can tell you
that Italian received the most points. Spanish came in second place,
Portuguese in third, and French in fourth. These scores don't mean
much as they are right now though. I only looked at 527 of the words
in the entire Latin language. It might have just been the words that
I compared that made Italian win; there could be more words in
Spanish or French that are more similar to Latin than they are in
Italian. So hopefully after I figure out the chi square analysis I
will be able to see clearer results.
I also finished collecting tests to
take in each of the languages and got some student volunteers to also
take them. The tests all go over grammar and vocab and are all level
one, except for Spanish which is level three because I already know a
little Spanish. Those results should be in by next week, and so
should the syntax comparisons. Sorry to keep you in suspense!