Language Families

[Frances Karttunen]

This is true.  Finnish and Hungarian belong to the Finno-Ugric language
family, and Basque is a language isolate.

Fran

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>From: Mark David Morris <mdmorris at indiana.edu>
>To: nahuat-l at server2.umt.edu
>Subject: Language Families
>Date: Mon, Jun 5, 2000, 10:54 AM
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> With so many good linguists on the list, I hope someone might confirm or
> correct my understanding that neither Finnish, Hungarian nor Basque are
> Indo-European languages.  Thanks,  Mark Morris
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> For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more
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> To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight. To
> regard our ignorance as knowledge, this is mental sickness.  Only when we
> are sick of our sickness, shall we cease to be sick.  The Sage is not
> sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.  TTC 71
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> MDM, PhD Candidate
> Dept. of History, Indiana Univ.
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