Similarities in unrelated Languages
Similarities in unrelated Languages
Submitted by Khalid on Wed, 2005/04/20 - 20:42Language similarities between apparently unrelated languages is quite a prevalent phenomenon, regardless of what the underlying reasons in each case are. Here is a link that clearly shows that totally unrelated languages can have the same words for the same concepts or objects.
And how likely are chance resemblances between languages? Quite likely actually. according to this statistical study on the Zompist web site.
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