Re: Estonian; Hungarian
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 28, 2003, 22:46 |
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Robert Jung wrote:
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> Does Estonian have vowel harmony?
I don't know for sure, but it is closely related to Finnish which does,
so I'd be surprised if it didn't.
> Is Hungarian really Finno-Ugric, or is that just a myth? (Is it more
> related to Turkish than to Finnish?)
Hungarian is Finno-Ugric. The "Ugric", in fact, refers to Hungarian and
related languages. Finno-Ugric is, in turn, a branch of Uralic, the
other branch, Samoyedic, consists of a number of small languages spoken
in northern Russia. There's no definite relation to Turkic (although
there are loan words from those languages), altho some believe that
Uralic is related to Turkic, among other languages. I don't know enough
about the languages to make an informed judgment on that.
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