Re: Estonian; Hungarian
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 28, 2003, 22:46 |
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K'tabba Robert Jung:
> Does Estonian have vowel harmony?
No, it doesn't. It lost it several centuries ago due to certain vowel shifts.
> Is Hungarian really Finno-Ugric, or is that just a myth? (Is it more related
to > Turkish than to Finnish?)
Hungarian is indeed a Finno-Ugric language, from an Ob-Ugric part of the family.
Its closest relatives are Khanty (Ostyakian) and Mansi (Vogulian) still spoken
by less than 10,000 persons in Yugra (former Khanty-Mansiysky) Autonomous Okrug
in Russian Federation on both banks of the Ob and Yugra rivers. It is *not*
related to Turkish though it has a certain amount of Turkic borrowings (as well
as Slavic, btw).
-- Yitzik