Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/12

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Subject: Re^2: [Leica] Non-Indo-European European languages
From: tgif at mbi.nifty.com (Tom Kumagai)
Date: Fri Nov 12 05:47:16 2004
References: <3.0.2.32.20041111190851.0225f8dc@pop.infionline.net>

Marc,

I haven't seen your name since I came back to the list, and sure I am 
glad that you are still out there with all richness of your knowledge.
I don't know if you remember me, but sure am glad you sound fine.

Best Regards.

Tom Kumagai

>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!
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small <) ([Leica] Non-Indo-European European languages)