Re: Estonian; Hungarian
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 28, 2003, 22:46 |
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At 01:49 28.11.2003, Robert Jung wrote:
>Does Estonian have vowel harmony?
Only the vestiges of it.
>Is Hungarian really Finno-Ugric, or is that just a myth? (Is it more
>related to Turkish than to Finnish?)
It is a true-blue Ugric language, but with
a lot of Turkic and Turkish loans due to
having migrated through Turkic territory,
and then being neighbor/at war with Turkey
for >500 years.
/BP 8^)
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