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Albanian–Romanian linguistic relationship

Albanian and Romanian are two different languages that they use to communicate. They are not very similar and it might be difficult for someone who speaks Albanian to understand someone who speaks Romanian, and vice versa.

Although the two languages are not related, people have studied them to see if there are any similarities between them. It turns out that there are some words in Albanian that are similar to Romanian words! This is really interesting because it means that maybe Albanian and Romanian are related somehow.

Some people think that Albanian and Romanian are part of the same family of languages (like cousins). Others think that the similarities between the two languages might come from borrowing certain words from one another over time.

Either way, it's really cool to think about how languages can be connected, and how studying them can help us learn more about our world and the people in it!