Re: Finno-Ugric languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 18, 1998, 5:11 |
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Pablo Flores wrote:
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> I'd like to know something: how are Hungarian and Finnish related? I know
> they belong to the Finno-Ugric branch, characterized by agglutination and
> vowel harmony. But Finnish, Estonian and most of the other Finno-Ugric
> languages are spoken in Northern Europe. Does anyone know how the
> (presumably existing somewhere in time) Proto-Finno-Ugric language could be
> spoken in areas so apart from each other? I really haven't read any history
> about this -- or any theories, for that matter.
Basically, the Hungarians wandered around for a few centuries before
settling in Eastern Europe. I don't know why they left Northern Europe,
nor why they settled in Hungary, tho. Their language reflects their
migration, tho, as there are many different loan words from a number of
different languages, at different times in their language's past.
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