Re: Estonian; Hungarian

Ray Brown scripsit:

> The FinnoUgric family of langs is fairly well established.
> Some theorists hold that FinnoUgric and Turkic are two divisions of
> a larger Uralic family - but this is controversial.  Some hold the two
> groups are not connected. As far as I' m concerned, the jury is still
> out on this one.
"Uralic" is usually applied to the family including Finno-Ugric and
Samoyedic, a connection that is very well accepted.  Turkic, OTOH,
belongs to a somewhat less accepted family called Altaic, which also
includes Mongolian and Tungusic (a small family of which Manchu is the
best-known language), and more doubtfully Korean and Japanese.  Almost
nobody accepts a genetic connection between Uralic and Altaic any more.

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