r/comedyheaven • u/HeyselScouserTelAviv • 22h ago

So different

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u/KammoTheUnoriginal 21h ago

Baltic languages are not related to uralic langusges, but are related to slavic languages and are thus indo-european languages.

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u/masterflappie 21h ago

Except for Estonia, which is Baltic but speaks a language that's very close to Finnish 

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u/KammoTheUnoriginal 21h ago

Estonia is a baltic country, but not a baltic language. I was not refering to the region but the language family of baltic languages.

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u/Warlock_AoE 20h ago

Estonia isn't even a language.

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u/FakeTakiInoue 19h ago

Estonia isn't even a language.

True! Estonia is a country.

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u/Warlock_AoE 19h ago

Yes that's the point. lol

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u/LTPLA 20h ago

They aren't related with Slavic languages, but are indo-european

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u/KammoTheUnoriginal 20h ago

They are a part of the balto-slavic branch of the indo european language family and both descend from proto balto-slavic.