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