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From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Finnish related to Turkish?
In-Reply-To: kisu@sci.fi's message of 18 Nov 1996 16:24:38 GMT
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In article <56q2k6$kpr@tron.sci.fi> kisu@sci.fi (Hiski Haapoja) writes:

>Jonny Pearson (jpearson@uci.edu) wrote:

>>Can someone please comment on the linguistic relationship, if any, between
>>Finnish and Turkish?

>This should be in the FAQ... both languages have agglutinative word structure,
>and vowel harmony. That's about it.

I agree.  Who wants to write this up for inclusion?  I'd rather some other than
I did it...
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
