SIMILARITY ASPECTS OF ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES
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English and Russian are parts of the huge Indo-European language family. However, the two languages have distinct differences because they belong to different branches. English is from the Germanic branch while Russian is from the Slavonic branch. Therefore, Russian is more related to Serbo-Croatian, Czech and Polish languages, which belong to the Slav languages. Languages naturally evolve and the theory goes that at some point in time, as groups of people went their separate ways, their languages evolved and changed over time in different ways. Eventually, the languages of the various communities of people evolved differently enough that they became different languages. Most languages share common factors and can be divided into language families. For example, modern languages like English, Dutch and German are part of the Germanic language family, and share a common ancestor called Proto-Germanic. Russian is part of the Slavonic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is closely related to other Slav languages such as Polish, Czech and Serbo-Croatian. English and Russian are very different in many important aspects. The chief difference is that Russian is a synthetic language, whereas English is an analytical language
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