Unsurprising. I don't know when the Romulan/Vulcan split occurred in UF (or, indeed, if there was one, and the Romulans and Vulcans are not just parallel-evolution equivalents in the same way that there are Earth-independent human strains) but it probably was no further back than, say, the dark age that the near-simultaneous collapses of the Atlantean and Santovasku Empires heralded.

That means that the Romulan tongue hasn't had that long to diverge from its Vulcan roots, and at least some Vulcan languages are, one suspects, incredibly dense in their information payload. "Katra," for example, likely conveys a hell of a lot more information and meaning if translated completely literally than just "living spirit."

"Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" is also probably a lot denser in the original Vulcan as well, one imagines.

-Merc
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