So the Finno-Ugric linguistic group gets expanded from the old school trio of Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.
Was always curious about the Hungarians seemingly isolated from their northern linguistic relatives. This study shows the possible east-west migration from Siberia. Maybe there was a migratory segment that traveled south?
Yes, some traveled north and some traveled south. It is a long established fact that Finns and Hungarians are relative and both are revative to West Siberian tribes existing to this day.
> Was always curious about the Hungarians seemingly isolated from their northern linguistic relatives. This study shows the possible east-west migration from Siberia. <
As a person of Hungarian descent, I wish I would have known about this sooner. Since Siberia is in Asia, I could have claimed to be Asian-American.
Who knows how far I could have gone with that? I might have even ended up as a professor at Harvard, just like Liz “Cherokee Nation” Warren.
The Finno-Ugric model is apparently not the only one, merely the dominant one (I remember it from my high school days, for that matter). It's not unlikely that they have some distant common ancestry, or they could merely have the same pool of loan vocabulary etc. That's not something I'd have a way of knowing, I barely speak my own language...