Quote Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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Still both, especially the ancient regarding Greek, are pretty close to Iranic languages, Latin notwithstanding.
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Ancient Greek, which is supposedly of the Indo-Euorpean stock, is still very well preserved in modern Greek. So it's not surprising if we find a lot of similarities between the many old components of Greek and other modern languages.

What's more is the fact that throughout its entire history Greece has been very much East-orientated. This undoubtly has led to closer ties with the Eastern languages and so we shouldn't be really surprised to find that Iranic languages and the modern Greek have something in common.