Re: Uusisuom's influences
From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
Date: | Monday, April 2, 2001, 19:17 |
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Raymond Brown wrote:
> >We-ell, there's a whole lot of tiny Uralic langs - Ingrian, Votian,
> >Udmurtian, Mari, Komi etc -
>
> I know - but I hadn't realized these were all on the European side of the
> Urals.
All the Finno-Ugric languages are on the European side of the Urals (OK,
except Khanty and Mansi).
> >I'm probably forgetting something too.
>
> Yes, I'm not sure where the Europe-Asian boundary is drawn across the
> Caucasus; it is likely we should include Kartvelian (Georgian) in the
> non-IE list of European langs.
I think it would probably be simplest to take as European the languages of
any country that is a member of UEFA (European Union of Association
Football), except Israel.
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