[Verginius Rufus]

Hungarian doesn't belong to this family of languages at all.

Hungarian (Magyar) is a member of the Ugric family--the other languages in the group are spoken by small numbers of people in western Siberia. The Ugric languages are related to the Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian, and a few others) in the "Finno-Ugric" group. The Finno-Ugric languages are grouped with the Samoyed languages to form the Uralic language family (the 4 Samoyed languages combined are said to have only 30,000 speakers).

[Verginius Rufus]

The relationship between Finnish and Estonian is pretty obvious if basic words like the numbers are compared, while the relationship between those languages and Hungarian is much more distant and much less obvious.

One point of contact is the word for 100--sata in Finnish, sada in Estonian, and szaz (pronounced "sahz") in Hungarian...all derived from a form similar to the Avestan (Old Persian) word satem meaning "one hundred." Maybe that means the Proto-Finno-Ugric speakers didn't have a word for 100 until they came into contact with the Proto-Indo-European speakers. Or maybe they just thought the PIE word was cooler.

[Amberdawn]

O.K. Thanks for the info.