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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The word for father and mother (especially mother) are similar in many European languages, Slavic included, which doesn't mean the cultures share the same roots.

Though yes, I would agree that living on the same continent meant different cultures get to share a lot, inclding language, through trade or other means.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point being made though was that the languages are well shown to be genuinely related through a common ancestral language from which they both deviated, just as have most languages in Europe and parts of the Near East. The connection is tangible and quite real, not something just based on some few similarities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All I said is that they are related, because they very much are. Just read the Wikipedia page for either language if you're interested, you'll see that IE languages are all related.