Re: Finno-Ugric

Tero Vilkesalo wrote:

> I've seen the term 'Fenno-Ugric' being used. Which one is right?
"Fenno-" is technically the correct Latinate combining form.
However, "Finno-" is a very common variant.  Finno-Ugric
is only a part of Uralic, which has two branches,
Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic.

> If the
> Fenno-Ugric language group was divided in two, Finnish would maybe be in
> the
> 'Fenno' part.
And Estonian (Finnish with no final syllables; see
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html).

> I wonder what languages would be Ugric...
Hungarian on the one hand, and the various Ugric languages
spoken on the Ob' on the other:  Khanty, Mansi, etc.

"Finnish and Hungarian are about as similar as English and
Greek."

Question for anybody:  where did the Swedes get the
term "Finne" anyway?  What is its etymology?
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