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From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Scand. Languages - Finnish - Korean
Message-ID: <1642@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:35:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 08:35:24 1985
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Reply-To: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Keywords: Don't forget Japanese

In article <2780@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes:
>CLIVE writes:
>
>> Actually, Finnish is related to Korean, believe it or not.  They are
>> both of Ural-Altaic origin.  Nothing like either Scandinavian or
>> Chinese.  
>
>Not so fast!  When I studied Korean in college, my professor (Prof.

>Also, Turkish, like Korean, is an Altaic language, although Korean is
>Mongolian and Turkish is (surprise!) Turkic.  
>
>					-- Matt Rosenblatt


 When you were listing the Altaic group you forgot one of the
 most important ones, namely Japanese.

 mark

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