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Apparently Persian and Russian are close. Which is surprising to say the least. I know people keep getting confused about how Portuguese from Portugal and Russi
by afiodorov 11mo ago
Apparently Persian and Russian are close. Which is surprising to say the least. I know people keep getting confused about how Portuguese from Portugal and Russian sound close yet the Persian is new to me.
- zehaeva 11mo agoWhen I went to Portugal I was struck by how much Portuguese there does sound like Spanish with a Russian accent!
- binary132 11mo agoI thought I was the only one who perceived an audible similarity between Portuguese and Russian.
- mh- 11mo agoI speak neither, and both also sound similar to me depending on the accents of the speakers.
- djmips 11mo agoI had that too but it was Brazillian Portuguese where I noticed it.
- maleldil 11mo agoThe characteristics that make pt-PT sound similar to Russian are largely absent in pt-BR.
- dgan 11mo agoI am native Russian speaker, and work/visited Portugal. It definitely tricks me when not paying attention, its very similar sounding
- CGMthrowaway 11mo agoIdea: Farsi and Russian both have simple list of vowel sounds and no diphtongs. Making it hard/obvious when attempting to speak english, which is rife with them and many different vowel sounds
- FromTheSteppe 11mo agoWhile Persian has only two diphtongs and 6-8 vowels, Other Languages of Iran are full of them(e.g. Southern Kurdish speakers can pronounce 12+1 vowels and 11 diphtongs). I find it funny if all Iranians are speaking English with the Persian accent.
- ilyausorov 11mo agoYeh they seem to be in the same "major" cluster, although Serbian/Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Polish and Czech are all close. Turkish and Persian seem to be the nearest neighbors.