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RE: Basic Ancient Greek Language
Did Latin evolve directly from Greek? I don't remember if they're in the same language family or not. I've seen some of the Greek alphabet before. It seems that some of the English alphabet comes from it in one way or another.
The Greeks got their alphabet from the Phoenicians, from modern-day Lebanon-ish.
The Etruscans of northern Italy got their alphabet from the Greeks.
The Romans adopted their alphabet from the Etruscans, so there was a big influence of the Greek alphabet onto Latin.
A, B, E, Z, H, I, K, M, N, O, P, T, Y and X appear in both alphabets.
Languages that stem directly from Latin (The Romance Languages) are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian.
All these languages are part of the Indo-European family.
English is an interesting language as it borrowed words from other languages. Would you say English probably did more borrowing and more total words than other languages? Officially speaking, maybe not. Unoffically, perhaps if you account for slang, for unoffical words that are added to English each year. Also, if you account for different meanings, variations, and everything to words. For example, Google as a noun and now as a verb. Go Google it. I mean, go google it. Some languages appear not to have suffixes and other affixes. So, as an English Teacher, I used to talk to my students about these things. So, you could count each variation of a root as a different word. But if you focus only on the roots, English still may have more total words than other languages. Unofficially, there are over like a million English words, some say, not counting archaic versions of the modern spelling of some of those words. Also, alternative spelling for different versions of English like British English and American English.