…the Mbabaram word for “dog” was in fact dúg, pronounced almost identically to the Australian English word…

  • Iunnrais@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I love the analysis done by zompist, here: https://www.zompist.com/chance.htm

    In summary, having a few purely coincidental similar words is extremely likely. In fact, if there were no such similarities that would be weirder, from a mathematical perspective… especially (but not necessarily) if you stretch what might be considered a “similar meaning”, which people often do.