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minus-square@lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•3 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-square@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 day 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.