Re: Is Magyar/Hungarian really Uralic?

Ergo...

Hungarian is essentially a Uralic language that went on a trip around the
world and still managed to remain fundamentally a Uralic language.

~Danny~

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank George Valoczy" <valoczy@...>
To: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
Cc: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Is Magyar/Hungarian really Uralic?


> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Danny Wier wrote:
>
> > http://tmajlath.tripod.com/index.html
> >
> > Not too long ago we were discussing proto-languages, Nostratic, and
possible
> > links between English, Chinese and Quechua or what not. I found this
website
> > that *specualtes* on the true origin of much of Hungarian's vocabulary
(it
> > doesn't claim that Hungarian is the mother of all languages, and it does
> > come with an appropriate disclaimer). Mostly Indo-European and Altaic is
> > cited, as is a lot of Sumerian, but a few words from Sino-Tibetan and
> > Quechua (!) also appear.
> >
>
> Ah, the "Hungarian is Sumerian" debate rears its ugly head again. Most of
> what I've read on the subject is rather superficial - there is only one
> book which can be considered as having any real value (IMO its value lies
> in disproving the theory).
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