Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> 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.
Well, my surprise was not so much about having a single label for Uralics and
Altaics, as about this term being _Mongolisch_. And Yakutian is suposed to be
a plain ol' Turkic language, so excluding it seems strange.

The easily annoyed may note that the atlas's creators thought of _Mongolen_ in
this sense as belonging to the same set as _Sudan-Neger_.

                                                      Andreas