i think if you made a reasonable, adequate 30-40 character alphabet that covers all of the european language phonemes (bulgarian and russian and serbian combined have all of them, i think) and then render the phonetic form of every european language in this text, you'd be quite surprised to learn how many common sounds, and direct or orthogonal meanings there is.

it was one of the most amusing things after getting quite decent at bulgarian, going to serbia, and how many ways the languages were similar, by being opposite.

like:

zato shto

za shtoto

both of these words (serbian first, bulgarian second) means the same thing

the bulgarian word i put the space to show where the accented syllable is, it's written all as one word using the W symbol with the tail on it, SHT.

za to shto

zash to to

it's a tongue twister trying to say one word after you learn the other word.

there's a lot of funny connections between sounds too, like "baixo" (bai-sho) meaning "low" sounds a lot like the southern slavic word for father - bashta, and in serbian "bash" means "extremely"

there is a generally accepted hypothesis that all of the eurasian languages have a common ancestor and they have all been jumbled up. funny that. like it describes in genesis with the tower of babel. which sounds a lot like ... skyscrapers... and then a disaster that blew them up including mainly stuff falling out of the sky and the ground shaking.

it was kinda shocking to me reading the Book of Jasher how many references to modern european places it makes. Lombardy, the Seine river, and several other words that are clearly mangled versions of modern versions of european place names.