(cache) TIL Hindi and Welsh derived from the same 5000 year old proto-european language and this explains why they sound so similar despite being spoken by people 5000 miles apart. : todayilearned

TIL Hindi and Welsh derived from the same 5000 year old proto-european language and this explains why they sound so similar despite being spoken by people 5000 miles apart. (news.bbc.co.uk)

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I was going to say the exact same thing. It's specious reasoning, because every language (with the exception of Hunagrian, Finnish and Basque) between India and Wales is based on the same proto-Indo-European language. And none of the other languages have a "Hindu" accent.

So it's a coincidental resemblance. Kind of like how Civil War general Robert E. Lee and Bruce Lee have the same surname--but aren't related. Lee/Lee? MUST be from the same ancestry.

Except, they're not.

"Welsh accents kind of sound vaguely like Hindu accents. So there MUST be a reason!"

Except, there isn't.

Footnote: Languages are ever-changing, ever-shifting. English has had 27 vowel changes and accent shifts just within the last few hundred years. The nincompoop assumption that modern Indians have the exact same accent as Indo-Europeans from 9,000 BC is hilariously off-base. Likewise, that the modern Welsh accent is identical to the Welsh accent of 5,000 years ago. Man! How are people this uninformed about linguistics writing articles about it? For extra credit: French, at the time of Napoleon, sounded more like Spanish or Italian. So the French accent (like all other languages) has morphed phenomenally over just a few centuries.

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person is misunderstood and wont admit that he is wrong - tell them that they wont admit that they're wrong (something factually happening in reality and evidenced by the comment thread) and according to you that it is an "ad hominem" attack...?

I dont think that means what you think it means.

Also in a parade of hypocrisy- heres a reply you send someone from barely 10 comments down your comment history:

"Are you dumb?

Spell socks, the English word, as an English speaker

In English, C is pronounced "si" "

https://np.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/36vmmk/socks/cri0123

Did you really go ad hominem? (btw what you said to him is a legit example of ad hominem, unlike what youre claiming of what I said- in a reply not even directed at you!)

And what I am doing here is merely mocking you intellectually by being correct and providing evidence of that. So please dont embarrass yourself again.

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"Sonia Mathur, a native Hindi speaker, had her interest sparked when she moved from India to work for the BBC in Wales - and found that two accents from countries 5,000 miles apart seemed to have something in common.

It has long been known that the two languages stem from Indo-European, the "mother of all languages" - but the peculiar similarities between the two accents when spoken in English are striking.

Remarkably, no-one has yet done a direct proper comparative study between the two languages to found out why this is so, says Ms Mathur.

Particular similarities between the accents are the way that both place emphasis on the last part of word, and an elongated way of speaking that pronounces all the letters of a word.

"We tend to pronounce everything - all the consonants, all the vowels," Ms Mathur said.

But not only the two languages' accents share notable common features - their vocabularies do too.

Ms Mathur's own research on basic words, such as the numbers one to 10, found that many were similar - "seven", for example, is "saith" in Welsh, "saat" in Hindi.

"These kind of things really struck me," she said.

"When I reached number nine they were exactly the same - it's 'naw' - and I thought there had to be more to it than sheer coincidence."

She later spoke to professor Colin Williams of Cardiff University's School Of Welsh, who specialises in comparative languages.

He ^"specialises ^ⁱⁿ ^{^{^comparitive}} ^{^{^{^{languages"......}}}}

He suggested that the similarities are because they come from the same mother language - the proto-European language.

"It was basically the mother language to Celtic, Latin, and Sanskrit," Ms Mathur added.

"So basically that's where this link originates from." "

This is unique as there is no other documented case that is similar to this in that you can audibly hear the similarities as much as you can here.

Show me another example and then send it to the BBC so that they can make an article about it.

Youve completely left out the rest of the article that contains the points (that you've obviously read...) that prove what I am saying very clearly. lmfao.

Please stop.

Or at least complain to the BBC and the language professor who 'thinks he is more correct than you about languages'.

I didnt create this article and I am not a professor of language.

I'm someone who lives in Wales and found this interesting.

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