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stevekemp a day ago

> all so related but everyone does not want to admit it.

I'm laughing in Finnish..

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tharkun__ 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Hehe, you found the exception that proves the rule :P

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SllX 20 hours ago | parent [-]

And Basque, Maltese, Turkish and Georgian.

Magyar (Hungarian) and Finnish are both Uralic languages along with Estonian and the Sámi languages, but none of these are related to the Indo-European languages common in the other parts of Europe.

And while most of Europe’s extant languages are in the Indo-European language family, there’s still a fair number of differences between Albanian, Germanic, Hellenic, Celtic, Romantic and Slavic languages.

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tharkun__ 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh for sure there are many differences, that comes with them being different languages, countries, ethnicity. You can do this on many levels.

The point was essentially what you're showing here: People focusing on all the differences instead of shared history, languages influencing each other and how we're all not that different in the end.

If you want to, even within what are nowadays countries and what outsiders would say is "one language" and "one ethnicity", you can start focusing on differences and make people dislike each other.

	▲	SllX 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s fair. I tunneled in through a linguistic lens.