Why do Germanic and Celtic languages sound so different from Romance, Balto-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian ones? The latter category sounds much faster and rapid-fire than the first.
>>524458
Because all these languages developed differently from PIE?
>>524458
>slavic rapid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuDz0Tv_wo
>>524477
>and german
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjwDV1Is34U
>>524458
>the guy looks like a mongoloid desu senpai
This is now a Let it go thread
> Finland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrO8K_A05c
>>524477
Still not as slow as English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZMMGKJsXsM
>>524518
>I just want a linguistics major to explain what's going on with those fricatives and stop consonants
Have you read the wiki article on proto-Germanic? Or the creolisation hypothesis?
>>524518
Linguist here. Read about Grimm's Law and go from there.
>tfw Ling major but my department gives zero shits about historical ling
I still love the department but I like history too so it makes me a little sad.
>>524458
Celtic languages are usually pretty fast m8.
>>524458
Why do English words tend to not having endings? Only verbs have them, and the rules are extremely easy.
>>525584
English has gradually lost a lot of its inflection over the course of its history for a variety of reasons. It tends to make up for this with a relatively strict word order/syntax.
Celtic and Latin languages sound fairly similar. Theories suggest an Italo-Celtic bond.
