Re:Why Arabic is Terrific
by adamzochowski on Monday August 22, 2011 @09:34AM
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> hungarian is not related to finnish
"" The Uralic languages ( /jʊˈrælɨk/) (sometimes referred to as Uralian languages) constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt. ""
Re:Why Arabic is Terrific
by peterbotond on Monday August 22, 2011 @12:52PM
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the referenced wiki article also mentions another point of view. the referenced article also does not mention the significant number of hungarian speakers in Canada.
i will not comment any further on this thread. my view is based on extensive research of turkish, finnish, hungarian, english, german, spanish, and russian grammers.
hungarian is not related to finnish, rather to turkic languages. i am a native hungarian speaker, and i know hungarian grammar is logically closer to turkish than to finnish. the story how they became related is purely political, and references easily found on this subject and i do not intend to get into. in hungarian literature class we studied finnish words that were similar, grammer, and a few poems.