Geographical location of the Ural-speaking populations. A variety of Uralic languages and linguistic tree of their relationship. The color on the map corresponds to the color of the language group. [Credit: Kristiina Tambets et al.]
Geographical location of the Ural-speaking populations. A variety of Uralic languages and linguistic tree of their relationship. The color on the map corresponds to the color of the language group. [Credit: Kristiina Tambets et al.]
What language was spoken 7000 years ago? Back then, did humans speak or did they just grunt? If they spoke, what happened to their language, that is was replaced by the "Ural family of languages?"
Since I lived here n Budapest twice and learned the language, I’m somewhat familiar with this topic. Of the original Magyar tribes which migrated westward and settled on the Hungarian plains in 1100, not that much remains of their genetic stock even though the language and culture survived. They became pretty intermixed with the Slavs and Germans in the area. A couple times the population was devastated by plagues and they invited in Swabians (southwestern Germans) as well as some neighboring Slavic people (Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, etc)to help repopulate.
About the language.....if I hear Finnish in the next room behind a closed door for example so it’s a little muffled,then it does sound like Hungarian a bit. Some of the sounds are similar. I can’t understand a damn word of Finnish though even though the languages are related. Its not like say English/Dutch/German which share many words and many more which are extremely close ifnot exactly the same.
Fascinating! Great post!
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