Post-Valley of the Beautiful Women
Aaron E. Drews
aaron at LING.ED.AC.UK
Tue Sep 26 09:35:04 UTC 2000
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
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
Bide lang an fa fair Awa whair nae man has gaun afore
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