Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Non-Indo-European European languages
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue Nov 9 20:23:59 2004
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I believe you are correct, and that Estonian is also in that category--I 
know that the Finns and Estonians can more or less understand each 
other, so their languages must be related.

Nathan

hlritter@mindspring.com wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, Finnish, Hungarian (, and Turkish), all part of the 
> Finno-Ugric language family, are also European but not Indo-European (but 
> not related to Basque/Euskara).
> 
> --howard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hlritter=mindspring.com@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hlritter=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> Kenneth Frazier
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:32 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: OT:How many languages do you speak?
> 
> 
>> old language euskara or
>>basque
>>which some members of my family do speak fluently...
> 
> 
> Felix,
> 
> I recall reading somewhere recently that Euskara is the only 
> non-Indo-European language spoken in Europe.  Is that correct?
> 
> Ken
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