Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ...
by orand on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:13PM
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And don’t forget Estonian in the Finno-Ugric group. It’s kind of like a redneck version of Finnish in my experience, while Hungarian feels totally unrelated to a Finnish noob like me.
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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ...
by szemet on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:55AM
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Hungarian and the other Finno-Ugric languages have diverged thousands of years ago. They share some basic words from the hunter-gatherer time (heart, water, fish etc...), but this is apparent only for linguists as the writing and pronunciation has diverged a lot.
Since then, hungarian language got a strong and more recognizable influence from turkic/slavic/germanic languages.