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Hungarian is a language isolate

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-07 13:50

I'm sick of jealous people who want to take away the uniqueness of the Hungarian language by inaccurately linking it with other languages it has little to do with such as Finnish or Turkish. The most common thing they cite are a handful of similar words and "vowel harmony". Vowel harmony means a different vowel in the suffix is used depending on the earlier vowels that are in the word. The vowels Hungarian, Finnish, and Turkish use are completely different.

Other languages that has been unfairly categorized into a language family are Albanian and Armenian, the Indo-European family.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-08 23:44

Finnish is not at all like Japanese.

The ONLY thing that is (noticably) related is the phonology, and that's still to a limited extent.

Basically, vowels are the same (except u, y, ä, ö and う), a lot of basic consonants are the same (though this can be said about most languages sharing a lot of similar consonants), and consonant clusters are very simple in Finnish.
Similarities stop there.

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