German and Russian?! Maybe to a person not at all familiar with either Germanic or Slavic languages, but they are not as closely related at the other 2 pairs.
German and Russian?! Maybe to a person not at all familiar with either Germanic or Slavic languages, but they are not as closely related at the other 2 pairs.
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I almost didn’t put this one because I don’t get it, but several people I know have confused them.
phr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
most people go by sound. tgere is a phenomenon that (european) portugese gets viewed as ‘some slavic language’ by laypeeps. it is just arbitrary what people will think your language is.