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Unless Estonian has been reclassified as a hybrid Balto-Germanic (Scandanavian)—I don’t know.


16 posted on 09/10/2007 9:59:59 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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I had friends who were exchange students to Eastern Europe...One went to Estonia, one to Lithuania, and I went to Poland...the three languages are totally different from each other...

Lithuanian is as you say, related to Sanskrit (there’s even a hint of Latin). Polish is a Slavic language (also a few Latin roots). Estonian is not a Scandanavian language but then again neither is Finnish...Finnish is actually very different from any other language in Europe and Estonian is sort of a sublanguage of it...

Hope that clears things up...


18 posted on 09/10/2007 10:09:48 AM PDT by stefanbatory
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