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To me, it sounds like a combination of Lithuanian, Russian, and Italian.
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Am I the only one who has contemplated a possible link between Lithuanian/Latvian and Greek? A lot of surnames look coincidentally similar even, and I have been told that the Greek language would have come from the north.
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´Whatever is said in Greek sounds profound...´
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Greek and Spanish language have similar balance in terms of vowels and consontants, and some letter similarity.
A friend of mine have said me in the past, that it would sound like Spanish, if we weren't talking that fast
True as well. If a Greek has the accent (like me), its very harsh. No soft ''r'' from usBut when speaking English, Greeks have an accent I would describe as distinctly "Eastern European", not that dissimilar from a stereotypical Russian accent.
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A personal anecdote:
At my job, last summer I remember a couple of my coworkers always saying how there were several Russian customers, one of whom was an older lady who people found kind of intimidating. I kept hearing about it and was thinking to myself.. I haven't seen any Russians.. it wasn't long until I realized that they were mistaking the Greeks from my town, mainly from northern mainland Greece, for Russian. And it turns out, the mean old Russian lady people kept complaining about, was Greek.
Since most of the people in my town mistake Bulgarians for Russians, and these Greeks looked similar to Bulgarians and sounded 'Eastern European' it was not inconceivable they'd be perceived as Russians.
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