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Re: Finno-Ugric

From:Anthony M. Miles <theophilus88@...>
Date:Monday, June 5, 2000, 11:39
>From: Danny Wier <dawier@...> >>From: John Cowan <cowan@...> > >>Jarkko Hietaniemi scripsit: >> >> > Sadly enough >> > I don't know enough about other Fenno-Ugrian languages like Estonian >> > and Hungarian, but I have a very strong hunch that they are similar >> > in this regard. >> >>They are, indeed. > >From what I've seen Estonian could almost be dialect of Finnish! The >difference is that in Estonian there are new letters like c, s and z with >caron (used like Latvian or Czech), and o-tilde, which is a mid-high back >unrounded vowel (IPA small gamma). Also, where Finnish uses <p>, Estonian >uses <b> (which is still pronounced /p/; where Finnish uses <pp>, Estonian >uses <p> -- and Estonian <pp> is actually a ultralong or tripled [!] >consonant /ppp/! > >Doubled vowels are also a convention in Estonian. And check out these two >words: > >kuuuurija "moon explorer" >jäääärne "edge of the ice"
Are these two identical vowels or one superextralong vowel?
> >Hungarian and Ugric are pretty different, albeit still obviously Uralic. > >DaW. >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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