Celtic (Anglo-Saxon thread)

[thomasvieth]

Add Turkish, too. (BTW it's Ural-Altaic)
Thomas

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jules Siegel wrote:

> 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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