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So those are all nationality language, I don't have time to post minority language lol. If anyone would volunteer to do so would be glad in this topic !
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I'm surprised Thai has a few the same as Mandarin. I expected Vietnamese to share more with Chinese, as well as Korean. The word for '3' seems fairly common among the major languages even across families.
Interesting. I know Samoan is Austronesian, but it's Polynesian, I didn't think they were all that close.
yeah linguists say that Austronesian is one of the more close-knit language families. It's weird because Filipino numbers look as close to Samoan numbers as they do to Bahasa Indonesian/Malaysian and Javanese
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yeah linguists say that Austronesian is one of the more close-knit language families. It's weird because Filipino numbers look as close to Samoan numbers as they do to Bahasa Indonesian/Malaysian and Javanese
I wonder how close Malagasy is to the language of Easter Island.
I'm surprised Thai has a few the same as Mandarin. I expected Vietnamese to share more with Chinese, as well as Korean. The word for '3' seems fairly common among the major languages even across families.
Vietnamese seem to close to Chinese just only culturally. By the way when it comes to language or genetic comparison Thai seem to share a lot with Chinese for some reason.
They are discussing about Thai or Vietnamese who is closer to Chinese in this forum.
I wonder how close Malagasy is to the language of Easter Island.
Malagasy shares linguistic similarities with a Bornean language (from the Barito region, Indonesian Borneo).
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