Why do Germanic and Celtic languages sound so different from

>>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
>>524487
lad what the hell are videos of translators trying to match the rhythm of an English-language song supposed to prove

I just want a linguistics major to explain what's going on with those fricatives and stop consonants

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>>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.