Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
Is Estonian Indo-European? It doesn't share many features with Latvian, for example.

EDIT: Estonian is definitely not Indo-European.
It's a comma instead of a dot. Viking's sentence should say: Only Estionian [is related]. Lithuanian and Latvian are Indo-European and thus not related.

Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
200 words? Seriously?

Anyway, I'm not so sure that's a reliable indicator. German and Dutch are closely related, have almost identical syntax structures, but what really causes confusion between the two is the large amount of "false friends" - words that resemble eachother but which have very different meanings.
It's entirely possible that those false friends has a common origin, but have drifted apart with time. For example, English has borrowed the Nordic word for stairs (trappa) twice. A "stair door", aka trap door is the older word, but (possibly due to some accidents, or more probable, a similar method came up in animal traps), trap got it's current meaning a few centuries later.

Second time is for a specific geological formation (trap rock or trapp).