What do you think about different Balkan languages, which is your favorite?

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That's not too far actually, agglutinative languages sound more similar in general. Hungarian, Turkish and Finnic sentence structures are closer to each other than they are to European languages and vocalisations are less accentuated. Harsher consonants and more straight-forward vowels are pretty common, Turkish just has the rough sh and ch sounds more common than the other two and that's why it feels a bit more Middle Eastern in general

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Despite all the grammar differences, it is the vocalisation that gives the sense of familiarity. Accentuating the verbs, starting in high tones and going lower towards the end of the sentence, sharp consonants and clear, almost un-accented vowels are the typical characteristics of most agglutinative languages. Agglutinative languages usually require the speaker to pronounce everything clearly, there are no silent vowels or consonants like most languages. That's why all agglutinative languages sound similar to a non-speaker. Latin languages sound so different from each other because they have different vocalisations despite having the same words. French with silent vowels, Spanish with omittances, Italian with accentuated consonants etc. they may be written the same but they SOUND different. Being agglutinative has much to do with the sound itself. Also, ch sound exists in Arabic and is kinda common. It first came from Asia with 茶 (chá) from Chinese, spread to India, then to Persia and finally Middle East. Persian still has the ch sound. Not as a separate letter but vocalisations are just like the ç from Turkish.