Re: Finno-Ugric languages

It is very hard for a comparison like that to be made, because three
months in Hungary will not give you near enough command of the langauge
to make comparisons to finnish.  Very many cognate words are actually
obsolete or archaic in HUngarian, having been replaced by loans in the
modern language.  Even for me, a native speaker of Hungarian, it can be
sometimes difficult.  Also, Hungarian has undergone an incredibly
extensive series of phoentic changes from the Uralic proto-language.

But it is quite correct to say that Hungarian is as far from Finnish as
Hindi is From English.

-------ferke
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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