Re: Numbers ancient & modern (was: Unilang report)

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
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