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    Re: Animals.

    Quote Originally Posted by michalkopyta
    I have noticed that Russian language has many words similar to Polish and some similar to English (chimpansee for example). The second one similarity is very weird for me - because these two and languages from different language groups :/
    Both Polish and Russian are Slavic languages, and there's a certain number of words that share the same (Slavic) roots. What about the names of various non-European animals - they sound similar in many languages, because they are loaned from Greek, Latin or some other languages. For example, chimpansee is NOT an English word, it's of Western African origin, and then it spread all over the globe. There are more words like that: орангутанг, жираф, гиппопотам, крокодил, зебра, пиранья, опоссум, etc.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck View Post
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    Just a small remark. Accents in Russian are placed over vowels.

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    I think you may have a problem with your fonts. The accent is over the vowel. I'll change the font in my post to see if it displays correctly for you.
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    How about now? I changed the font to Arial.
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    Now it's OK.

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