Celtic (Anglo-Saxon thread)

[Jules Siegel]

At 07:51 PM 05/4/97 -0300, Vaska <vaska at geocities.com> wrote:

>there's also Hungarian as the second extant non-Indo-European language
still spoken [and flourishing] right in the middle of Europe.  And, come to
think of it, Finnish would be the third.

>P.S.  Ooops.  Almost left Estonian: it, too, belongs to the Finno-Uralic
>family, and is not an Indo-European language either.

Add Korean to this group, which is not a European language, nor is it
related to either Chinese or Japanese. I've seen the group referred to
Ural-Altaric, with the explanation that it shows the paths of the Huns --
across the top of of the world to Finland on one side and Korea on the other
and through the belly of Central Asia and Europe to Hungary. 

Spoken Maya sounds so much like Korean and the people look so much like the
Koreans that I suspect there's a genetic connection. Many Maya babies bear
the classic Mongian blue spot at the base of the spine, but some
ethnographers dismiss this, as there's been much Chinese immigration into
Mexico since very early times, maybe pre-dating the Conquest.

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