Indo-European Language Similarities
Comments discuss similarities between European languages like English, German, Russian, and others due to their shared Proto-Indo-European roots, Germanic or Romance branches, and occasional mentions of non-Indo-European languages like Finnish.
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It's all Indo-European. What's a few vowel shifts between friends.
Both speak Germanic languages, close enough?
Both languages being in the Indo-European language family, that's not very surprising.
Isn't English a Germanic language though?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. All those languages are proto-indo-european, voters! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
Russian, German and English have the same language root (PIE), the same for Finnish and Hungarian, so it's not an accident.
Well, they're both Indo-European - evolved from the same language.
Any cognates (even distant ones) in any Indo-European tongues?
is there a cognate in an indo-european neighboring language, perhaps by loanword?
Point in case - proto Indo European language. It's clear most of European languages (except pre-Indo-European, like Finnish, Estonian, Basque..) have common parent language. For example, look at numbers. All those languages have awfully familiar numbers. If you speak one language, you can recognise most numbers in other languages rather easily. Yet they evolved into very different languages in different regions.