Re: Essentialist Explanations

Belarussian is essentially Russian spoken by a Pole.
Ukrainian is essentially Russian spoken by a Czech.
Gheg is essentially Tosk spoken by Albanians that don't live in Albania.
Western Armenian is essentially Eastern Armenian spoken by Armenians that
don't live in Armenia.
Armenian is essentially Indo-European spoken by a Georgian.
Ossetian (aka Iron) is essentially Persian spoken by an Armenian.
Swiss German is essentially High German spoken when really high.
Galician is essentially Portuguese spoken by a Spaniard.
Brazilian Portuguese is essentially Portuguese that knows a lot of tourists.
Uzbek is essentially Turkish consonants with Persian vowels.
Ge'ez, Amharic and Tigrinya are essentially Arabic spoken by Cushitic
people.
Aramaic is essentially Hebrew with a global agenda (in its heyday).
Lojban is essentially a computer language spoken by humans.
Ido is essentially Esperanto that figured out it didn't need all those
consonants.

(I might've already said a few of these.)

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