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To: Cronos
Well, Magyar is fiendishly difficult. I knew French and German before learning polski and it still was very difficult, yet I couldn’t find any linkages in Magyar. Completely alien.

Hungarian (Magyar) is a Finno-Ugric language distantly related to Finnish, Estonian, Sami (Lapp), and some isolated indigenous languages of the Russian Far North. All of the other languages you mentioned, as well as English, are from the Indo-European language family and will have mutual cognates, most commonly showing similarities between basic words like numbers, colors, animals, foods, and familial relationships. Between the Finno-Ugric and Indo-European language families, however, there is not even the most trivial connection, other than loan-words from the modern era.

49 posted on 07/19/2022 8:46:13 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: ccmay

True. But it went further than that, I couldn’t get the grammar even


57 posted on 07/19/2022 12:03:52 PM PDT by Cronos
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