Re: [tied] Genetic Link between Albanian and Romanian

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 30515
Date: 2004-02-02

02-02-04 21:36, P&G wrote:

>> This GREAT similarity could only be explained by a GENETIC LINK
>
> It is quite common for neighbouring languages to make their sound systems
> more like each other - whether they are related or not.

It's also common for closely related languages to have rather dissimilar
sound systems -- take Polish and Czech, for example.

Piotr