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From: Matti Linnanvuori
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 20:21
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 20:21
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In <1992Dec30.211948.2700@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson) writes: >The languages most closely related to Finnish are Estonian and Lapp; next most >closely related are some minority languages of the Volga River basin; The language most closely related to Finnish is Karelian. With Estonian and a few tiny languages they form the Baltic Finnish languages. Sami (Lapp) is a bit more distant descendant of the Proto-Finnish. likewise, >Hungarian's closest relatives are a couple of Volga languages. Hungarian forms the Ugric languages with its closest relatives: the Ob Ugric languages Khanty and Mansi. (The Ob is a river in western Siberia.) The Hungarians are definitely not close to the Ob Ugric peoples geographically or genetically.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!sauna.cs.hut.fi!batgirl.cs.hut.fi!linnan From: linnan@batgirl.cs.hut.fi (Matti Linnanvuori) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finnis tribe? Date: 2 Jan 1993 20:21:58 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1i4th6INNkpd@sauna.cs.hut.fi> References: <Bzz20F.JAu@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec29.064921.26491@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> <1992Dec30.211948.2700@leland.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: batgirl.cs.hut.fi