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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Hungarian / Czecho-Slovakian
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Is anything known about non-related but adjacent languages, that have 
striking similarities other than in borrowed words? E.g. Czecho-Slovak
and Hungarian share the stress on the first syllable and the distinction 
between long and short vowels. Both are also found in Finnish, but not in
(any?) other Slavic languages.
Other examples: Esperanto and Polish both have the stress on the penultimate
syllable, (flame bait), and Basque seems to have phonetic similarities with
Spanish, despite being extremely unrelated.
And is it a coincidence that the name of the Guaran language of Paraguay 
can be written so well in Spanish?
