German, Hindi and Spanish are cousins.

Around 3.4 billion people, about 42 percent of the world's population, speak an Indo-European language natively. The family includes English, German, Spanish, Russian, Persian and Hindi. All descend from one proto-language spoken roughly 6,000 years ago, probably on the steppe north of the Black Sea.

Useful: That's why 'mother', 'Mutter', 'madre' and Hindi 'mātā' sound so alike.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

IndoeuropaeischSprachfamilien

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