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[Gabo Darvas]

I've just tried to find some evidences of Finnish-Hungarian grammatical relationship so I've disappeared for some days. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] There are very difficult evidences but I can tell you examples, Elenglin.

Words starting with an 'h' in Hungarian always start with a 'k' in Finnish: hal = kala (fish); ház = kota (house). (I know it's not so much but I don't know other words.)

The ground of our vocabulary has Finnugor origin (not only Finnish of course; Estonish, Lappish etc.) If you like to know some of these words or compare, I will send you an e-mail. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] But it's Tolkien's forum I guess... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] I'm sorry.

But last I must tell you a Finnish sentence very similar to the Hungarian one: 'Jönna vonna' = 'Jön a vonat' (Comes the train) It's maybe random - maybe not. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Tolkien's words sound beautiful in Spanish and Hebrew. I just like the melody. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] In Japanese - a bit funny but interesting.

[ March 10, 2002: Message edited by: Gabo Darvas ]