Language Families

[Robert G. Comegys]

Hi Mark,

Finnish and Hungarian are Turkish languages, although Hungarian has been
thoroughly saturated with Slavic loan words, something like the way English, a
good Germanic language,  is loaded with French. (My apologies to the Germans,
the French, and the English.)

Basque? Who knows. Its usually considered an isolate by most "responsible"
(read dull and uninteresting) scholars.

Regards,

John Comegys
Mark David Morris wrote:

> 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
>