Re:Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
by sevensor on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:17PM
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Is Finno-Ugric a magnet for this kind of speculation? I've talked with Koreans who are adamant about the existence of a relationship between Korean and Finnish.
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Re:Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
by brutos on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:43PM
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That idea seems to be discredited:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%E2%80%93Altaic_languages
The remaining connections of Korean still fascinated me when I first heard about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages
> Various versions included the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic and sometimes the Korean and Japonic languages.
I was surprised of a kind of "UEH-ll" sound that you can hear in both modern turkish (their goodbye) and Korean language (don't have an example) and wondered if they had some kind of connection. Apparently they do!
Re:Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
by gkya on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:55PM
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Turkish ü is similar to German umlauted u and the French u. Here the theory that Turkish is part of a big Altaic-Uralic family that may include also Korean, Mongolic and Japanese is taught at schools. IANAL but AFAIK the general view is that Altaic and Uralic are separate, and Korean and Japanese are not Altaic languages.
Note that Uralic-Altaic and the like have been the fruit of an Anatolian Turkish nationalism and tend to speculate for nobilising the language.