Re: Numbers ancient & modern (was: Unilang report)
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 27, 2001, 15:15 |
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On Sun, 27 May 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Ference Valoczy wrote:
> >On another, sort-of related note, I've been thinking of late that the
> >Ugric branch of the Uralic tree is wrong. As it is it is:
> >
> >Uralic - Samoyedic
> > |
> > | - Finno-Ugric
> > |
> > | - Finnic
> > |
> > | - Ugric
> > |
> > | - Ob-Ugric
> > | |
> > | | - Mansi
> > | |
> > | | - Khanty
> > |
> > | - Hungarian
> >
> >Lately I've been looking a lot at these languages and I'm starting to
> >seriously believe that it should be more like:
> >
> >
> > Ugric
> > |
> > / \
> > / \
> > Mansi Khanty
> > / \
> > | |
> > |- Hung. -|
> >
> >that is to say, a circle-like thing; or if not that, at least all three of
> >them simply as Ugric, because while there are a great number of
> >similarities between Mansi and Khanty, there are many features in
> >Hungarian which are found in Mansi or Khanty but not both...this is quite
> >the interesting thing...I'm going to work on this more and if any of you
> >are interested I'll tell you what I think...
>
> I'm afraid I can't say much on this, but what happened to the EAU
> hypothesis? Have you done any more research on it?
>
> Andreas
This came up while I was working on that and I went off on a tangent.
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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