: What language to use as scientific without exact its naming? Hard to say why scientific language on Earth is greek, with touch of latin or not (instead ). But may it be. And probably answer

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The reason the cientific language in Earth is Latin with Greek vocabulary (as Classic Latin had) it's because Latin was the lingua franca of Europe, the common language. A physicist writing in Germany a book in Latin knew his works could be read by a partner in France without translation.

It's the same reason most new advances are now in English, it's the modern lingua franca.

So in your world, the name of the scientific language would be the one most spoken, or the one that exports more knowledge in their language. You have two schools, one has to be more important than the other.

Or both, for a (short) time there were many scientific papers in German and French and it could happen the same in your world.

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The reason why ancient/classical/whatever Greek and Latin are used for scientific terms is because they're "dead languages." This means that the meaning of a word in Greek/Latin will always mean that from now until forever, it won't change due to colloquialisms. Think of how often words in English can take on multiple meanings throughout the centuries, or even day-by-day, that's why an English word can't be used for a scientific term since in the future it might mean something different.

So for your example, think of fictional languages that have died out, and that's why they're used as a scientific language in that universe.

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