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Originally posted by Yorick:
Whew, back again.
Yeah Finnish and Magyar(Hungarian) are both in the Finno-Urgic(sp??) group, both originating in central Asia when the Finns had a huge territory they inhabited. Wolgir, do you know what group Lapps belong to? Or whatever happened to the Getes of southern Sweden?
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Yeah it is Finno-Ugric. Although Hungarin and Finnish don't have any words that sound similar, unlike say, German and English. They are similar in that the stress is always on the vowels in words as opposed to it being on the consonants in English. I always thought that english and german, dutch etc. belonged to the Germanic ethnic group, or is that the same thing as Teutonic which someone mentioned above? Almost all languages in Europe are either Romantic, Germanic or Slav. Finno-Ugric is very rare.