I've started learning Chinese Mandarin for business reasons... From the begin I have been wondering, how much is the influence of Greek language to Chinese... Or whether or not there is any kinda influence to this completely remote and different language.
Finally, I noticed that sometimes there is the Greek letter π as symbol in simplified Chinese and in most cases the translation to Greek is a word starting with π. Some examples:
πυρετός - πυρεξία : 发烧
πάρκο: 公园
παίζω: 玩儿
Also these words have pi in English as well: pyrexia, park, play.
So, probably these are coincidences? Or the Greek influence to all human languages is much stronger than we can imagine? Or maybe in the "first language" or in the "pro-language" of humans the sense of pi or π had strong importance that we see today in all languages?
Finally, I noticed that sometimes there is the Greek letter π as symbol in simplified Chinese and in most cases the translation to Greek is a word starting with π. Some examples:
πυρετός - πυρεξία : 发烧
πάρκο: 公园
παίζω: 玩儿
Also these words have pi in English as well: pyrexia, park, play.
So, probably these are coincidences? Or the Greek influence to all human languages is much stronger than we can imagine? Or maybe in the "first language" or in the "pro-language" of humans the sense of pi or π had strong importance that we see today in all languages?
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