Post-Valley of the Beautiful Women

[Aaron E. Drews]

Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>     I have no idea if Hungarian is or is not a Slavic language.

As others have said, no it isn't.

> She told me that there are Hungarians in Nepal, and that she could understand the Nepalese
> alphabet.

Well, the Magyars started off in central Asia, I think somewhere between
Siberia and Mongolia.  It's possible that they travelled to Nepal, isn't
it?
After all, they got as far as Finland and Hungary.  And the
Indo-Europeans -
in a variety of flavors: Roman, Celtic, Gothic - got everywhere.

--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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