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minus-squarelugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 days agoLangFocus has a video about that effect. It’s called something like “Why does Portuguese sound like Russian”. There are quite some phonetic and phonotactic similarities
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoLink: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA There’s actually a lot of totally separate parallels here, I guess they just hit a certain critical mass when combined.
LangFocus has a video about that effect. It’s called something like “Why does Portuguese sound like Russian”. There are quite some phonetic and phonotactic similarities
Link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA
There’s actually a lot of totally separate parallels here, I guess they just hit a certain critical mass when combined.