Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe

[Oakster]

http://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/

I know this is a 2008 study but since I just found it, it's new to me

I think it's really interesting how central Greek is, yet only Albanian is relatively close to it.

[littlebelgianwriter]

That is really interesting indeed.

I will look into that topic later on!

Both Greek and Albanian stand a little bit alone.

It is also interesting to see how many speakers there are for every language.

I sort of knew that Finnish and Hungarian were related to one another, however, I had no idea that Estonian was related to Finnish too. I thought that language was related to Swedish and the other Germanic languages. Seems that I thought wrong!