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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 2008-01-10 0:13

>>17

Lern2compare languages

>-Finnish and Japanese both have postpositions*:
>E.g. Lentokentälle - Kuukou ni - to the airport
Not a post-position in Finnish. Not at all the same thing. It's just called declension, just like in:
-Russian (+ other Slavic languages like Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc.)
-German (+ Icelandic, as well as old English, old Norse)
-A shitload of Inuit languages
-Sanskrit

>-Both Finnish and Japanese use "n" for the genitive case:
>E.g. kissan auto - neko no kuruma (猫の車) - the cat's car

So does Russian. -н (-n) is a common ending for possession:
Папен хуй - dad's dick

>-Finnish and Japanese can express grammatical number through "t":
>ihmiset - hitotachi - people

That's just idiotic. Now you're just finding arbitrary, shitty faggotry such as "LOL THERE'S A 'T' SOUND IN JAPANESE PLURALS AND IN SOME FINNISH ONES THE LANGUAGES ARE LIKE TOTALLY BROTHERS"

>-Both Finnish and Japanese lack articles (a, an, the).
So does Russian.

>-Both Finnish and Japanese have a similar sentence structure, where the most important information usually comes last.
No they don't. Finnish is primarily SVO and flexible (like Russian, might I add). Japanese is SOV, and not as flexible. Huge difference.

>-You can find a similar logic behind many Finnish and Japanese expressions.
You can also find a dick in your anus if you look hard enough. What kind of bullshit claim is this?

>-Both Finnish and Japanese are more or less synthetic (like all other Uralic and Altaic languages).
So is German, Russian, Norwegian/Swedish/Danish, Turkish, etc, etc.

tl;dr: STFU faggot

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