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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 1:07

it would be difficult to prove that Japanese(which is considered isolate) and Finno-Ugric languages are related. Especially because of Japan and Finland being separated by Russia (or the Americas and two Oceans on the other side)
 
>>17
a few letters that are similar doesn't prove shit.
Also Japanese (unlike Finnish) is strict with its sentence structure.

Maori doesn't use plurals or pro-nouns either, that doesn't mean its related to Japanese or Finnish.
All your similarities are too superficial
>>25
this man speaks the truth and knows his Slavic languages

Face it fags, Hungarian is related to Estonian and Finnish, and the differences come from influences from the languages of the surrounding Countries and minorities

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