• Flying Squid
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    1 year ago

    It’s amazing to hear, say, Hindi and German and realize they come from the same roots.

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      1 year ago

      What is mental is that there are other languages in the Indian subcontinent that are not part of that language family at all!

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          1 year ago

          Right, Finnish and Hungarian owe their roots to the mongol invasion if memory serves. But in India both language groups emerged separately in the north and south.