Re: On the knowledge of the reaserched languages

In article <gtwtn6opi5.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Otto-Ville.Ronkainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (O-V R:nen) wrote:

> holman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Holman) writes:
>
> > Hungarian is *not* closely related to Finnish and no responsible linguist
> > would make such a claim. Hungarian is a *distantly related* language to
> > Finnish, something that is obvious to anyone willing to use established
> > methodologies to do the work of attesting for him/herself.
>
> I suppose it comes from that the language closest related to Finnish
> is Estonian,

Check out Karelian:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4280/kar_zapiska.html

> and then there are, crudely speaking, a dozen or two of
> languages no one has ever heard about,

It depends upon who you are. The Mordvins (Erzyas and Mokshas), one
million strong, are the fourth largest Finno-Ugric-speaking ethnos.

> and then there is Hungarian,
> which sort of gives one the idea of a "closely" related language.
> On the other hand, if one moves the same number of closest related
> modern languages (rather than millennia to common ancestor) from any
> IE language, one doesn't normally end up all that far away.

English and Irish? English and Polish? English and Albanian? English and Pashto?

Revisionism is in order.

Regards,
Eugene Holman
.

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