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| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4893 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 17 of 18 22 April 2012 at 4:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Why do I hear Farsi when I listen to Armenian? I was watching a documentary on the
Genocide, and whenever there was dialogue in Armenian, I swore it sounded like an Iranian language. Anyone else think so? I guess it's the sprachbund effect, but I found it odd. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5264 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 18 of 18 22 April 2012 at 8:05am | IP Logged | ||
Massive Iranian influence at multiple levels. I believe the earliest Indo-Europeanists thought Armenian was an Iranian language together with Persian, only later recognizing that it was a separate branch. That said, not all Indo-European branches are equally distant from each other. Italic is closer to Celtic than to Indic. Iranian is closer to Sanskrit than to Germanic. It appears that at its deepest roots, Armenian is somewhat closer to Greek, Iranian, and Slavic than it is to other IE languages, such as Italic, Celtic, Tocharian, and Germanic. Edited by Merv on 22 April 2012 at 8:05am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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