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To: RightWhale
Finnish is part of the Finno-Ugaritic family of languages while Magyar I thought was a Mongoloid language brought across by the Huns (not sure about this)
221 posted on 09/14/2004 12:55:54 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4)
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To: Cronos

I know more Albanian than of any of those languages, which is not much. Maybe I will learn something this semester in Linguistics.


226 posted on 09/14/2004 8:57:31 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: Cronos

"Finnish is part of the Finno-Ugaritic family of languages while Magyar I thought was a Mongoloid language brought across by the Huns (not sure about this)"

Both are members of the Finno-Ugric language family, but the relationship is extremely distant to say the least.

These languages are (starting with Finnish, and in order of closeness to Finnish) Finnish, Estonian, Sámi languages, Karelian, Vepsian, Ludian, Votian, Livotian, Mordvin, Mari, Komi, Udmurt, Hanti, Mansi, Hungarian/Magyar.

It is said that Hungarian is about as close to Finnish as English or German are to Persian, which seems to me a good way of putting it.


229 posted on 11/20/2004 4:47:13 AM PST by Sarvet
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