Il sommo 😫

by ArtistImaginary

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  2. A comedian started it as a joke in the 1928. It got out of hand.

  10. Swiss german has no “father” since it’s just the natural evolution of Proto-Germanic without a king dictating how everyone has to speak.
    After 2000 years of separate evolution, it still has many similarities with English that standard German doesn’t have, for example the verbs luege (to look) or gumpe (to jump)

  11. Mikael Agricola, who litterally created the written Finnish language.

  17. I would say the Scots Makars poets from the 15th century. William Dunbar and Robert Henryson.

  19. ill add Alessandro Manzoni too

    he was essential to the form of italian language.

    and if we want to be even more fussy, Federico II with the Sicilian school

  25. The First self insert fun-fiction writer in history
    My man dante

  31. Honestly, a few names to mind

    Antonio de Nebrija in 1492 created the first modern grammar of any European language. In my opinion he would be the “father of the language”.

    The other person that could come to mind of course is Cervantes, but he didn’t really do anything for the language, he just wrote the most influential novel in history, so I would argue the first one makes more sense.

  34. Probably not the father but we do say ‘la langue de Molière’

  38. Probably Bernat Etxepare (1545), the first book printed and published in Basque language, but Joanes Leizarraga (1570) was a protestant priest that translated the whole New Testament into a kind of standard Basque he devised, so it’s more of a father figure, we’d say 😀
    In modern times we consider Gabriel Aresti (1933-1975; especially his 1959 work “Maldan behera”) the father of the current Basque standard language.

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