Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> One of the funnier things about the this atlas, which has a mild Nazi feel to
> it, is that it classes the Finns and the Hungarians as _Mongolische_ peoples.
> It, for some reason, so classes all peoples speaking Uralic or Altaic languages,
> with the faintly surprising exceptions of the Tungusics and the Yakutians.
Well, Ural-Altaic used to be a recognized language family (but no longer),
and Tungusic languages (with the exception of Manchu) are pretty obscure, even
today.

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