Languages extremely similar to each other (Cuban, Arabic, newspapers)

[other99]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Although there is really nothing extremely similar to English, the closest ones to it are Faroese and Dutch. The dying Frisian language is closer yet.

well English is an strange language, and dutch is even more closer to German than English. I guess its due to England isolation from the continent that resuted it to be less similar than other germanic languages.

[Manolón]

Originally Posted by Miaiam

I am not so sure Catalans do not understand at least a fair amount of Portuguese.

Unless they speak regional dialects, which I love, btw.

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Catalans don't understand Portuguese, only vinho verde and bacalhau.

As to regional Italian dialects, we understand Italian regional dialects such as Sicilian, Sardinian, etc. Also Catalan as spoken in Sardinia.

[oreocookiexo]

Portuguese is still the most closely related language to Spanish that exists.

[Thomas R.]

I don't know when I heard them they sounded more different than I expected. Ethnologue seems to place Extremaduran as closest to Spanish.

Ethnologue report for language code: ext

I think these are in Extremaduran.


‪Estremaura hunciona‬‏ - YouTube

‪dominguito el extremeño‬‏ - YouTube

[taydev]

^What country is that language spoken. It sounds like absolute Spanish.

[Smtchll]

Originally Posted by Thomas R.

I don't know when I heard them they sounded more different than I expected. Ethnologue seems to place Extremaduran as closest to Spanish.

Ethnologue report for language code: ext

I think these are in Extremaduran.


‪Estremaura hunciona‬‏ - YouTube

‪dominguito el extremeño‬‏ - YouTube

the first one is Spanish with Extremaduran subtitles. The second, I'm not sure

[daortiz]

Spanish and Italian speakers can probably understand each other on a 70% to 75% basis
even without having studied each other lenguages.




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[daortiz]

Originally Posted by taydev

^What country is that language spoken. It sounds like absolute Spanish.

Extremaduran is just a variant of spanish or a dialect aking to
the way people speaks in the US deep south Vs standard US english you may speak
in the Midwest or the West Coast.

[daortiz]

Originally Posted by oreocookiexo

Portuguese is still the most closely related language to Spanish that exists.

Gramatically yes, but if you are spanish speaker you'll be damn in you can understand
much of what they are saying in portuguese.
phonetically these two languages are very very different!! specially the brazilian variety
The funny things is that portuguese speakers can understand spanish speakers relatively
well, but not the other way around.
To a spanish speaker Italian is way easier to understand when speaking, portuguese is easier to read.

[chikid]

Originally Posted by daortiz

Gramatically yes, but if you are spanish speaker you'll be damn in you can understand
much of what they are saying in portuguese.
phonetically these two languages are very very different!! specially the brazilian variety
The funny things is that portuguese speakers can understand spanish speakers relatively
well, but not the other way around.
To a spanish speaker Italian is way easier to understand when speaking, portuguese is easier to read.

Agreed. If you know Spanish, you can probably read about 75% of written Portuguese, however speaking and listening to it, you will be totally lost. The pronunciation is very very different.

While with Spanish and Italian the you might be able to read about 50% of Italian, however you will know to pronunce most of the words because phoentically Italian and Spanish are very very similar.