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To: Perdogg
The Finnish language is related to Hungarian (though has changed much over time and they don't sound similar anymore). The Finnish, Hungarian, Sami, Samoyed, and Estonian languages all have their roots in Mongolian; they're all related to the language of the Mongols. So maybe the Finns have some of their origins from Mongolia? It's near eastern Siberia, as the article mentioned several times. Just a thought...
28 posted on 09/26/2007 11:37:16 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat (If Reid and Pelosi were in charge during WW2 this tagline would be in German)
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To: G8 Diplomat

They’re basically mutts...like the Russians. The British are pretty much mutts too.


31 posted on 09/26/2007 11:45:56 AM PDT by bobjam
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To: G8 Diplomat
The Finnish, Hungarian, Sami, Samoyed, and Estonian languages all have their roots in Mongolian; they're all related to the language of the Mongols

Mongolian is an Altaic language. Finnish, Estonian, Sami, and Hungarian are Uralic languages. Some decades ago there was a conjectural Ural-Altaic language family, but more recently this theory has been pretty well abandoned.

34 posted on 09/26/2007 11:50:31 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (IF TREASON IS THE QUESTION, THEN MOVEON.ORG IS THE ANSWER!)
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To: G8 Diplomat
The argument in the article is that the Fenno-Ughric languages are quite possibly of WESTERN origin, and spread East.

At the same time the very latest research detaches all 11 modern Sa'ami languages from the Fenno-Ughric sub-group for several reasons. One is that it can now be demonstrated that the so-called "German Loan Words" in Sa'ami actually originated in Sa'ami and were passed to the Germans at an early time.

Also, with 11 clearly identifiable Sa'ami languages (some of which are mutually incomprehensible to the others), it's pretty obvious the Sa'ami languages have been developing in isolation far before contact was made with the East.

The common vocabularies occur only for distinct bodies of technology or agriculture. The Sa'ami, of course, had no agriculture!

BTW, your basic Korean and Tibetan "red heads" must necessarily have a FAR WESTERN EUROPEAN origin ~ so that gives you a good idea where the Mongols got their languages.

Note, it was very common in ancient times for tribes to trade surplus girls for horses, pigs, cows, and other useful items. The result was the passage of both genes and words to other un-related tribes. Given enough time, those genes, and words, could make the trip all the way across Eurasia and back!

40 posted on 09/26/2007 11:59:35 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: G8 Diplomat; Perdogg

That’s the old theory where it was assumed the Western Finno-Ughric languages were assumed to have come in from the East, rather than originating in the West and moving East in the more distant past.


94 posted on 03/12/2011 8:36:13 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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