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Originally posted by Yorick:
Vaskez, where are you posting from? Budapest? I have been to Budapest (long time ago) very nice city.
The Magyars and Finns are supposed to be of the same race, but centuries of Swedish rule on the Finnish side, and the Magyars being either surrounded or governed by Österreich, the Ottomans, Slavs etc has I guess, changed the languages somewhat.
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No, I was born in Budapest, but now live in England. I don't think I could speak or write english this well if I still lived in Hungary, hehe

Hmm, the Magyars and the Finss do not come from the same race as far as I know. The 2 languages are very very different even though they are from the same language group. They are nowhere near as similar as say english and german. AFAIK there are no words that even sound the same like green and grun (with the umlaut!) in english and german. The race that IS related to Magyars is the Huns. There is a legend which says that the nations originated from 2 brothers, Hunor and Magyar. Although this is just a story there is some truth in that they are related. The Huns eventually left Asia about 500 years b4 the Magyars, destroying much of the western roman empire as u know and then somehow disappearing, merging with existing nations etc. Luckily the Magyars managed to survive

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Someone above stated that all European languages stem from Indo-European, IIRC HUngarin and Finnish do not. I know Hungarian(Magyar) originated from somewhere in Asia which is where the Magyars came from.
A little note, although the Ottomans (damn turks!!!!

) and the Austrians did rule Hungary at some stage, slavs never did. Rather Magyars ruled all of Yugoslavia and some stage. The other damn nation that dared to attack Hungary is the Mongols

which was even b4 the Ottomans.
I think you'll all have had enough of me by the end of this thread!