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To: blam
I have never actually seen anything about it but it has to be obvious to many the similarity between Finnish words and Japanese.

For instance Sako rifles,

54 posted on 02/03/2006 9:56:48 PM PST by yarddog
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To: yarddog
The Japanese language has a large Uralic-Altaic component. So does Finnish. So does Estonian. So does Turkish.

They are all related languages ~ to a degree brought to their present speakers through the instrumentality of the Mongol Empire (or, in the case of the Japanese, the 6th century Korean invasion).

Sa'ami, on the other hand, has a large Uralic-Altaic vocabulary, but the 9 current Sa'ami languages have a grammar much more consistent with Sumerian and the Dravidian languages of Southern India.

They "look" vaguely Asiatic simply because "white folks" looked like that before breeding with non-European peoples to their South.

55 posted on 02/04/2006 6:55:01 AM PST by muawiyah (-)
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