Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:24 AM 11/10/04 +0100, 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. Hungarian and Turkish are loosely connected through being descended from Mongolian. Latvian, Estonian, and Finnish are of Finno-Uiguric orign, closely connected to Mongolian but distinct. Lithuanian, on the other hand, seems to be a descendant of the original, undifferentiated, Indo-European mother tongue. As this language originated somewhere north of the Caspian Sea, it is not known how this language emigrated to the Baltic coast. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!