Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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-Uigric 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!