Re: Q & X

-----Original Message-----
From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Q & X


>En réponse à Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:
>
>> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>> > > Nope, it's Uralic, of the Finno-Ugric branch.
>> >
>> > Fascinating! Which other languages are of this branch?
>>
>> The only other major languages in the Uralic family are Hungarian and
>> Estonian, also of the Finno-Ugric branch.  There's quite a few other
>> languages in the family.  The family is mostly in northwestern Russia,
>> around the *Ural* mountains.
>>
>
>Wasn't Turkish thought to be Uralic too or am I completely off? Well, I
guess
>that the fact that both the Finno-Ugric langs and Turkish have
agglutinative
>morphology and vowel harmony is not enough to put them in the same family,
but
>I thought it was an accepted theory.
And I thought Turkish was in the Turkic-Altaic family or something.  Boy, am
I *really* confused now.  <wry g>  Someday I'll get all these language
families figured out, but good gracious, there's so *many* of them....

YHL