Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Non-Leitz Leica-fit stuff
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:09:32 -0500
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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
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