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Nice list and interesting point. I haven't heard of Boroditsky before. To your list I would add Finnish or Hungarian for some hard-core agglutinative features.
by lkozma 15y ago
Nice list and interesting point. I haven't heard of Boroditsky before.
To your list I would add Finnish or Hungarian for some hard-core agglutinative features. I don't speak Turkish, so I cannot tell to what extent it behaves similarly in this regard. See for example this list with 2253 forms of the word "shop" in Finnish: :)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html
Then to cover some indoeuropean vocabulary, I would add one slavic, one germanic and one neolatin language for good measure, although this is a bit too eu-centric.
- Jun8 15y agoFinnish and Hungarian belong to the Ural family, with a lot of similarities to Turkish and some other languages, so much so that people have put forward a super family, Ural-Altaic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-Altaic_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-Altaic_languages) to combine them. This is controversial, though. I bet someone speaking Finnish can pick up Turkish pretty quickly. Google "finnish turkish similarity" and you get many interesting (and some funny) results.