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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
Cool website, I didn't understand a lot of it (my intelligence is only slightly above average, yay me [not]). But it seems interesting that Armanian can be similar tonother languages and was once considered a info-European language, and has it's relative Persian which can be close to Greek in some ways. That's if I'm correct from what I did read, I may be wrong, please correct me if I am. Languages are interesting.
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I'm pretty sure Armenian is still supposed to be in the Indo-European family... Which... well, I didn't understand your attitude towards your intelligence, to be frank. Which is a complicated topic anyway...
I think my current language learning spree had a bit to do with the fact that I couldn't understand how people decided that some languages were related to others... I think I'm finally starting to get it.
Like, they say that the fact that the number "three" is the same in Latin, Slavic and Celtic langages matters. But why? Because that's a part of speech that generally won't get borrowed from a different language. The same with pronouns... Words that tend to get borrowed are nouns and verbs, coming over together with the foreign objects and activities...