Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am not a linguist but I have studied a couple of Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian and Hungarian) and I am a natural speaker of one (Finnish) and as far as I know Turkish is not related to Finno-Ugric languages although the Turks seem to think so. The are some words loaned from Turkish to Hungarian and vice versa but that´s about it. Japanese is not related to Finnish but there are similarities. Actually Korean is a very, very, very distant relative of Finnish but AFAIK Korean and Japanese are not related. Of course, if you go as far back as to the famous Lucy, we are all relatives. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 22. tammikuuta 2001 22:45 Aihe: Re: [Leica] Non-Leitz Leica-fit stuff >At 02:19 PM 1/22/2001 -0500, Martin Howard wrote: >>Hmmm, I thought Finnish only shared linguistic roots with Hungarian? > >Well, we're in the field of speculative linguistics, but a fair summary of >the current state of the field would be to state that Finnish is the >westernmost outpost of a Central Asian linguistic family known as the >Finno-Ugric Group and Japanese is its easternmost outpost, making them >about as closely related as, say, Armenian and Spanish or Hindi and Swedish. > >Hungarian and Turkish also are related to the Finno-Ugric Group but seem >to be a bit more removed from the mainstream of that group than is Finnish. > >This is all a bit moot, and linguistics are busily spilling lots of ink on >the matter even as I type this. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >