MODERN LANGUAGES. 351 



guages appear to have produced the following 

 modern tongues : 



(r.) From the Latin came, 



1. The Portugueie. 



2. Spanifh. 



3. French. 



4. Italian. 



(2.) From the German, or Allamand^ 



5. The modern German, which fb little re- 



fembles the ancient, that it is with diffi- 

 culty we read the authors of the fourteenth 

 century. 



6. The low Saxon or low German. 



7. The Dutch. 



8. The Englilh, in which almoft all the noun 



fubltantives are German, and many of the 

 verbs French, Latin, &c. and which is 

 enriched with the fpoils of all other lan- 

 guages. 



9. The Daniih. 



10. The Norwegian. 

 i i. Swedifh. 



12. Dalecarlian. 



13. Laphndifh. 



(3.) From the 

 14. ''jlonefe, with a mixture of the an- 



cient Sarmatian. 



