Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!edwards 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 Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1642 Posted: Tue Nov 5 08:35:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:16:11 EST References: <518@tjalk.UUCP> <126@crin.UUCP> <5@druri.UUCP> <2780@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 24 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 ================================================================= gaijin: Doo nan deshoo ka. nihonjin: Uso. Nihongo wa sono grupu ni haitenai. gaijin : Uso ja nai hontoo da yo.