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[โ€“] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LangFocus has a video about that effect. It's called something like "Why does Portuguese sound like Russian". There are quite some phonetic and phonotactic similarities

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA

There's actually a lot of totally separate parallels here, I guess they just hit a certain critical mass when combined.