Linguistic Similarity Quotes

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.

Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences.

Telugu is a lot like Kannada, so I don't have a problem with Telugu. But Tamil is very difficult to learn, man.

I struggled a bit with Malayalam, but it was easier speaking Tamil; it is closer to Telugu.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.