Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, I haven't seen your name since I came back to the list, and sure I am glad that you are still out there with all richness of your knowledge. I don't know if you remember me, but sure am glad you sound fine. Best Regards. Tom Kumagai >At 05:24 AM 11/10/04 +0100, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >>I believe you are correct, and that Estonian is also in that category--I >>know that the Finns and Estonians can more or less understand each >>other, so their languages must be related. > >Hungarian and Turkish are loosely connected through being descended from >Mongolian. Latvian, Estonian, and Finnish are of Finno-Uiguric orign, >closely connected to Mongolian but distinct. > >Lithuanian, on the other hand, seems to be a descendant of the original, >undifferentiated, Indo-European mother tongue. As this language originated >somewhere north of the Caspian Sea, it is not known how this language >emigrated to the Baltic coast. > >Marc > >msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information