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The linguists of Quora had a similar discussion a while back about the putative similarities between Hebrew and Navajo. Basic conclusion: if you accept loose pa
by GCA10 7y ago
The linguists of Quora had a similar discussion a while back about the putative similarities between Hebrew and Navajo. Basic conclusion: if you accept loose pairings (shoe/boot) you can find "inexplicable" coincidences anywhere you want.
- Phithagoras 7y agoGood point. Do you have the link to the Quora discussion? I'd be curious to see it. There's a relatively small number of words that are common to human life around the world and of course there's going to be some coincidences. From the BBC article: >linguists identified almost 600-shared parallel words between the two languages... the Armenian and Basque languages have a number of almost identical words relating to agriculture 600 seems a little high to be completely random coincidence and the article refers to a paper describing grammatical similarities, which makes stronger and stranger case than shared words alone.