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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: 17 2008-01-10 10:43

>>25
Wow, using expletives really makes you sound tough, mature and educated all at once. Drop it, dude, it's not going to make your arguments better.

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

In some shitty remote dialect I guess. But that's not the genitive used in standard Russian. The -n genitive is used in standard Finnish and Japanese.

LOL THERE'S A 'T' SOUND IN JAPANESE PLURALS AND IN SOME FINNISH ONES THE LANGUAGES ARE LIKE TOTALLY BROTHERS

I never implied that. Quit putting words in my mouth.

So does Russian.

Of course, all languages have similarities. Lacking definiteness/indefiniteness is no big.

I just pointed out that both Finnish and Japanese lack articles.

No they don't. Finnish is primarily SVO and flexible (like Russian, might I add). Japanese is SOV, and not as flexible. Huge difference.

I never claimed the sentence structure is similar, I said "Both Finnish and Japanese have a similar sentence structure, where (i.e. in that) the most important information usually comes last."

I did not say "Both Finnish and Japanese have a similar sentence structure. Period."

You can also find a dick in your anus if you look hard enough. What kind of bullshit claim is this?

But it's true.

BTW, funny that you should mention Inuit languages - there's a theory that they're related to Finno-Ugric languages.

>>26

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)

You know, Russia in its entirety is not just one solid all-Russian-speaking block. Before Slavic peoples came to the heartland of modern Russia (i.e. Novgorod, Moscow, Kazan, etc.), it was exclusively inhabited by Finno-Ugric peoples.

And have you ever heard of the Yukaghir? They live quite close to Japan.

All your similarities are too superficial

I never claimed otherwise.

Also Japanese (unlike Finnish) is strict with its sentence structure.

lol who's being superficial now?

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