Re: Finno-Ugric
| From: | Anthony M. Miles <theophilus88@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 5, 2000, 11:39 |
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>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.
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