Re: Q & X
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 12, 2001, 23:10 |
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Tero Vilkesalo wrote:
> >Nope, it's Uralic, of the Finno-Ugric branch.
> >
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> I've seen the term 'Fenno-Ugric' being used. Which one is right? If the
> Fenno-Ugric language group was divided in two, Finnish would maybe be in the
> 'Fenno' part. I wonder what languages would be Ugric...
Well, the classification I have in _The World's Major Languages_ says
that Finno-Ugric is divided into Fennic and Ugric (which includes
Hungarian). Don't know the reason for different vowels. Then Fennic is
divided into Baltic-Finnic, Volgaic, and Permic.
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