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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 2008-01-11 12:15

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Yukaghir live near japan. the still don't sound Japanese

I never said/implied they sound Japanese. I just pointed out that they live close to Japan.

Also, it's not clear whether or not the Yukaghir languages are truly related to Finno-Ugric languages. Some linguists play it safe by saying they're not, while others embrace them wholeheartedly.

Im not saying its imposable, just unlikely. You still haven't had anything solid to back up your argument.

But there was no argument in the first place... (-_-* ) All I did was list things that are similar/the same in both languages, not prove that they're related.

Of course, it might be possible that Japanese and Finnish are distant (very distant...) cousins. Modern linguistics isn't infallible, you know, and the farther away one goes the harder proving that this and this language are related gets.

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