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One of two, I believe. The other being Hungarian.

by Spearchucker 10y ago

fulafel 10y ago
Celtic languages, Estonian is another Fenno-Ugric one, Sami, there are lots.
- DonaldFisk 10y ago
  Celtic languages (Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton) are all distantly related to Latin, and probably closer to Latin than other branches of Indo-European. Basque is a language isolate spoken in parts of Spain and France. There's also Turkish - part of Turkey is in Europe, but not in the EU.
  - frobozz 10y ago
    Though Basque is an isolate, it has a lot of Latin-origin loan words, due to centuries of contact.
  - rbanffy 10y ago
    I live in Ireland and I can tell you Irish has very little to do with Latin. Those who say Hungarian is hard have never been here.
    - DonaldFisk 10y ago
      An bhfuil Gaeilge agaibh? I was correcting someone who didn't think that the Celtic languages and Latin were in any way related. That is not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic explains this, even if the similarities are no longer obvious. Hungarian is unrelated to Latin.
      - rbanffy 10y ago
        No, I'm Brazilian/Hungarian. I've been here for months and still can't even figure out the structure of sentences, much less their meaning (unless it's obvious from external clues). I've always thought of myself as having a knack for languages, but Ireland humbled me. I can write Klingon, but I wouldn't be able to read safety warnings on the train were they not also written in English below. Which makes me want to put up some bilingual fake warnings with jokes written in Irish and innocent information written in English as if it were a translation from the text above. It'll be fun to learn Irish from my daughter as she starts school in the next months.
  - vram22 10y ago
    What is the explanation for part of Turkey being in Europe and part in Asia? AFAIK, that is not common, right, for a country to be part of two continents?
- vram22 10y ago
  What does the "ugric" part stand for?
  - fulafel 10y ago
    Wiktionary says: > Etymology > From Russian у́гры ‎(úgry), the name of an indigenous people dwelling east of the Urals, +‎ -ic. From the indiginous peoples in Russia whose languages are thought to belong to the language family.
tankenmate 10y ago
Actually Finno-urgic languages include Finnish and Hungarian; but also include others like Estonian, and many others besides in Russia, northern Norway, Sweden, etc.

One of two, I believe. The other being Hungarian.

fulafel 10y ago

Celtic languages, Estonian is another Fenno-Ugric one, Sami, there are lots.

DonaldFisk 10y ago
Celtic languages (Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton) are all distantly related to Latin, and probably closer to Latin than other branches of Indo-European. Basque is a language isolate spoken in parts of Spain and France. There's also Turkish - part of Turkey is in Europe, but not in the EU.
- frobozz 10y ago
  Though Basque is an isolate, it has a lot of Latin-origin loan words, due to centuries of contact.
- rbanffy 10y ago
  I live in Ireland and I can tell you Irish has very little to do with Latin. Those who say Hungarian is hard have never been here.
  - DonaldFisk 10y ago
    An bhfuil Gaeilge agaibh? I was correcting someone who didn't think that the Celtic languages and Latin were in any way related. That is not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic explains this, even if the similarities are no longer obvious. Hungarian is unrelated to Latin.
    - rbanffy 10y ago
      No, I'm Brazilian/Hungarian. I've been here for months and still can't even figure out the structure of sentences, much less their meaning (unless it's obvious from external clues). I've always thought of myself as having a knack for languages, but Ireland humbled me. I can write Klingon, but I wouldn't be able to read safety warnings on the train were they not also written in English below. Which makes me want to put up some bilingual fake warnings with jokes written in Irish and innocent information written in English as if it were a translation from the text above. It'll be fun to learn Irish from my daughter as she starts school in the next months.
- vram22 10y ago
  What is the explanation for part of Turkey being in Europe and part in Asia? AFAIK, that is not common, right, for a country to be part of two continents?
vram22 10y ago
What does the "ugric" part stand for?
- fulafel 10y ago
  Wiktionary says: > Etymology > From Russian у́гры ‎(úgry), the name of an indigenous people dwelling east of the Urals, +‎ -ic. From the indiginous peoples in Russia whose languages are thought to belong to the language family.

tankenmate 10y ago

Actually Finno-urgic languages include Finnish and Hungarian; but also include others like Estonian, and many others besides in Russia, northern Norway, Sweden, etc.