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Re: Estonian; Hungarian

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, November 28, 2003, 22:46
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^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)