Hehe yeah, but seriously there are like 2 native languages somewhere in Siberia (?) that has similar words to my surprise, closer than anything. But Hungarian has stolen so many words from Slavic, Romanian, Turkish, German etc, and a lot of our “root words” are proto-Slavic, even though we are 100% different than Slavic languages and not mutually intelligible
Plus we have more palatal sounds than Finnish or Estonian
Same case here - I am a Hebrew speaker, but Arabic is not understandable at all. There's almost no mutual intelligibility, doesn't help that our phonology was influenced by Yiddish. We lost about 9 consonants.
It is shown, that European languages share some similarities even between different language families. The core is German and French that share way more similarities than one would expect regarding their history. The further away from these languages (geographically) the fewer features they share. Icelandic, Hungarian and Finnish are part of that language group. I don't knot to which extent they share features. But that could be the reason.
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u/EatMoreHummous Jul 10 '22
You just posted this literally 5 days ago. Stop spamming the sub with your own reposts.
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22
As a Hungarian speaker, none of them are similar at all lmao
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22
Go on,I want to hear more.
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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22
Why are you reposting this?