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Re: Q & X

From:Tero Vilkesalo <teronpostilaatikko@...>
Date:Friday, January 12, 2001, 14:33
>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> > >Christophe Grandsire wrote: > > Wasn't Turkish thought to be Uralic too or am I completely off? > >Not completely. What is thought by some is that Uralic and Turkic both >belong to the "Uralo-Altaic family". > > > but I thought it was an accepted theory. > >Still pretty controversial. :-) Even Altaic is controversial.
I've read a Finnish book about the languages of world which is used in the university. There the writer says Altaic is hypothetical. I guess the Finnish professionals don't believe in it. Tero _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.