Simpsons, German

[Kent Mueller]

Thank you!

Now that makes more sense. With even just Estonian in the family there's a more obvious geographical continuity. Just
Finnish and Hungarian always struck me as odd...


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>From: hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Simpsons, German
>Date: Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 12:37 PM
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>Lainaus Kent Mueller <artkm at execpc.com>:
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>> Finno-Hungarian (Uro-Hungarian ?) is a
>> language family of its own, just those two, though there's, I think, some
>> suspicion it might tie into or grow out of one
>> of the "Ur" languages of Europe, otherwise extinct. 
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>Actually, the language family is called "Finno-Ugrian", consisting of
>Sámi ("Lappish"), Livonian, Estonian, Vote, Finnish, Ingrian, Karelian, 
>Olonetsian, Lude, Veps, Mordvin, Mari ("Cheremis"), Udmurt ("Votyak"), 
>Permyak, Komi, Hungarian, Mansi ("Vogul"), Khanty ("Ostyak"), Nganasan 
>("Tavgi"), Enets ("Yenisey Samoyed"), Yurats, Nenets ("Yurak"), Selkup 
>("Ostyak Samoyed"), Kamas, and Mator.                   
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>Heikki
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