Re: Estonian; Hungarian
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 28, 2003, 22:46 |
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On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 12:49 AM, Robert Jung wrote:
> Does Estonian have vowel harmony?
I haven't got definite info on that - but the examples I've seen seem to
suggest that
it hasn't. Apparently Estonian has moved significantly from the typical
agglutinative
structure of the Finno-Ugric langs and moved towards flexional morphology
more like
IE langs.
> Is Hungarian really Finno-Ugric,
Yep.
> or is that just a myth? (
Nope.
> Is it more related to Turkish than to Finnish?)
Nope.
The FinnoUgric gfamily 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 wo groups are not connected. As far as I'
m concerned,
the jury is still out on this one.
Ray
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