From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!iwsl2!jgpo
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Cognates in lots of languages
Article-I.D.: iwsl2.156
Posted: Tue Mar 15 09:37:02 1983
Received: Tue Mar 22 08:10:59 1983
Reply-To: jgpo@iwsl2.UUCP (John Opalko)


Hungarian is a Finno-Ugrian language and differs markedly from the more
familiar Indo-European languages.  The Magyar word for "tea" is "tea".
However, since there are no diphthongs in Hungrian, it is pronounced
something like "teh' ah".

John