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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: muawiyah

#####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.#####

I’m interested in Asian languages, and Korean & Mongolian seem to be of the same broad language group as Finnish:

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Language/korean.cfm


65 posted on 09/26/2007 5:23:42 PM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations.)
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