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Is Finnish Proto Indo European?
by keepquestioning 4y ago
Is Finnish Proto Indo European?
- Tor3 4y agoNo, Finnish is from a different language group: Uralic.
- keepquestioning 4y agoThat is a mysterious fact.
- darkhorn 4y agoNo. Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese are so called Uralic Altaic languages. They all share same grammatical structures.
- PLMUV9A4UP27D 4y agoIt can be noted that Finnish and Hungarian are more distant than English and Persian.
- darkhorn 4y agoIn terms of words or grammatical structures?
- PLMUV9A4UP27D 4y agoIn terms of words https://histdoc.net/sounds/hungary.html https://histdoc.net/sounds/hungary.html
- marton78 4y agoWhat is absolutely astonishing, however, is how similar they sound, at least in terms of prosody. To my Hungarian ears Finnish, at least if heard from distance, sounds eerily familiar. Compare this to e.g. Spanish and French, languages so close to each other but sounding so different. I wonder if there is some deep reason why prosody is well conserved in the Finnish-Hungarian pair and apparently entirely meaningless in Romance.
- keepquestioning 4y agoIs there a genetic link between Koreans and Finns?
- darkhorn 4y agoI have found this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_N-M231 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_N-M231
- keepquestioning 4y agoHm, I thought Europeans were R1A1
- int_19h 4y agoR1a1a seems to correspond to Proto-Indo-European-speaking migrants, but that's not the only group that contributed to the genetics of the present population of Europe.
- weberer 4y agoWell Finland and North Korea are only separated by one country.
- marton78 4y agoThere doesn't have to be. A people's language family and genetics don't necessarily have to match, because a small group of conquerors can force their language upon a much larger gene pool. Modern day Hungarians, for example, are genetically only marginally different from their Slavic neighbours.
- jcranmer 4y agoNote that Altaic itself is considered discredited among linguists, to say nothing of the Uralic-Altaic (which never found serious purchase).
- darkhorn 4y agoIf you look from Indo-European perspective, in other words if you look only at the common words, yes, they share very little common words. And then no one explains all those same grammatical structures shared between those languages. In the article replace Finnish with Turkish, Mongolian, Hungarian or Japanese and again that article will be correct again.
- morjom 4y agoNo. It's Proto-Uralic.