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No, it doesn't. The idea of Basque being related to Finno-Ugric is widely discredited.

• sevensor 10y ago
  Is Finno-Ugric a magnet for this kind of speculation? I've talked with Koreans who are adamant about the existence of a relationship between Korean and Finnish.
  • brutos 10y ago
    That idea seems to be discredited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%E2%80%93Altaic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%E2%80%93Altaic_languages The remaining connections of Korean still fascinated me when I first heard about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages > Various versions included the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic and sometimes the Korean and Japonic languages. I was surprised of a kind of "UEH-ll" sound that you can hear in both modern turkish (their goodbye) and Korean language (don't have an example) and wondered if they had some kind of connection. Apparently they do!
    • gkya 10y ago
      Turkish ü is similar to German umlauted u and the French u. Here the theory that Turkish is part of a big Altaic-Uralic family that may include also Korean, Mongolic and Japanese is taught at schools. IANAL but AFAIK the general view is that Altaic and Uralic are separate, and Korean and Japanese are not Altaic languages. Note that Uralic-Altaic and the like have been the fruit of an Anatolian Turkish nationalism and tend to speculate for nobilising the language.
  • slurry 10y ago
    >Is Finno-Ugric a magnet for this kind of speculation? Oh my yes.