{"id":4995,"date":"2026-08-09T15:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:27:18","slug":"5-surprising-reasons-unrelated-languages-can-be-similar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=4995","title":{"rendered":"5 Surprising Reasons Unrelated Languages Can Be Similar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.duolingo.com\/why-unrelated-languages-can-be-similar\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"5 Surprising Reasons Unrelated Languages Can Be Similar\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/7a\/33\/7a33d0f4-927d-4fe8-a6bf-96131b5e76d4\/content\/images\/2025\/07\/cover_enDDletters_blue.png\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">blog.duolingo.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">5 Surprising Reasons Unrelated Languages Can Be Similar<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Why do some languages sound alike, even if they aren&#8217;t related? Sometimes it&#8217;s more than random chance!<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}