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Did people in antiquity comment on word similarities across languages?
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[QUOTE="Hornbein, post: 6849499, member: 489043"] It is very common for otherwise unrelated languages to "borrow" words from one another. What linguists are interested in is whether languages have the same grammar. Grammar persists through time. The idea is if languages have a similar grammar then they came from a common ancestor. In this way we can learn about what was going on in pre-history (before written records). Hindi and English have a common ancestor. Hungarian is related to Finnish but not to German. And so forth. [/QUOTE]
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