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Explain French (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not a speaker of any Romance language, but Portuguese does sound kinda Slavic to me for some reason. That part of the Eastern European Portugal meme checks out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LangFocus has a video about that effect. It's called something like "Why does Portuguese sound like Russian". There are quite some phonetic and phonotactic similarities

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA

There's actually a lot of totally separate parallels here, I guess they just hit a certain critical mass when combined.