Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right, I forgot about the Estonians. Then there is Samish (sp?) spoken in various parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. There are different Samish languages and they are not mutually intelligible. But I think they belong to the Finno-Ugric family. Turkish is borderline (as far as being European). Geographically only a very small part is in Europe (west of the Bosporos). That's the way the Greeks understood it when they came up with the word. Nothing against Turkey. Most of the culturally influential Greeks lived in Turkey at the time (Ionians). Politically, of course, Turkey is soon right in there. Daniel On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > 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). > >