Ah, but check out the personal pronouns: English Russian Finnish Hungarian me, menya, mina, en we, my, me, mi thou, ty, te, ti he, on, hän, ő What's very

Ah, but check out the personal pronouns: English Russian Finnish Hungarian me, menya, mina, en we, my, me, mi thou, ty, te, ti he, on, hän, ő What's very weird is that it is probably not because the languages are related, but because the same forces that create pronouns, work in a similar way across languages. It's important the sounds be very different, for example, to minimize ambiguity. And they're some of the first abstract words children learn. Something similar is seen with informal terms for "mother" and "father" which have a very strange similarity across languages (e.g. in Chinese, English and Swahili "baba" means father.)