Re: The Hungarian Language: One of the true wonder of the Earth since ancient ti
shijing said:
Hi Etudiante --
etudiante said:
I read the entire thread but I didn't see any study supporting your claim "that Hungarian actually does have a heritage (descent from an earlier language, shared by other languages such as Finnish)." Where is it? All I found was a quotation from Stephen Sisa, a popular writer. (Stephen Sisa does not claim academic credentials or source his information.) Claims of connections between the Carpathian Basin Hungarians and the North-Eastern European Finns exist only in popular literature. They have no scientific bases (please note, above, that the mtDNA evidence also disproves such claims at the genetic level). If you know of any original research that supports your claim, please post it here. Thanks.
Well, first see my second post on this thread (reply #13) for a general reference (if you follow the Wikipedia link there, you will find additional references, although as I mention in that post, the list is incomplete and could be bolstered). I think it might be important to separate apples and oranges -- what I think you are talking about is genetic (mtDNA) evidence, but what I am referring to is linguistic evidence (that is the nature of the connection I understood Hottcherri to be implying, anyway). And linguistically speaking, the connection between Hungarian and other Finno-Ugric (and ultimately Uralic) languages seems to be nailed down pretty tightly. Languages and genes don't always travel together as an exclusive bundle, so there is plenty of room to explore what could lie behind a divergence between the
linguistic relationships of Hungarian and the
genetic relationships of the people who live in the Carpathian Basin and speak Hungarian. But to say that there is no scientific basis to connect Hungarian and Finnish at the linguistic level ignores a century of scholarship in the area (most of which is to be found in academic sources, although these are no doubt sometime drawn upon in popular literature).
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Re: The Hungarian Language: One of the true wonder of the Earth since ancient ti
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Hi Hottcherri --
Quote from: hottcherri on August 16, 2009, 12:27:15 PM
what i find most intrigueing about this thread, is the connection to the ability for hungarians to easily read and understand and interpretate the sumerian tablets, writings.....as when i first saw them, without any previous deciphering, not using anyone elses interpretations of them, i found them easily readable and comprehendable....and i haave a hungarian lineage and a native indian heritage.
also i find it interesting that as mentioned in these articles, that the hungairan language has not orginated from any other language, and that no one really knows where it came from, but yet it stands on its own, today.
Have you read the entirety of this thread? If so, you may note that Hungarian actually does have a heritage (descent from an earlier language, shared by other languages such as Finnish), and that there is no evidence that a Hungarian-speaker can read or understand Sumerian without going through the same training as anyone else would have to do before being able to do so. Do you really mean to say that you can read Sumerian without any training?
Dear shijing,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I can only use original research in my program. This excludes all Wikipedia entries but may include their externally linked original research work. In the case of the entry you mention, I found only links in which the authors either don't source their information, or rely on circular reference - where one author relies on her/his own unsupported (by original research) claims or on another author's equally unsupported claims.
"And linguistically speaking, the connection ... nailed down pretty tightly." This is where I need guidance to original research work (not popularized literature). Could you cite any?
"Languages and genes don't always travel together as an exclusive bundle..." I don't believe I argued that point. Perhaps this is meant to be a rebuttal to an earlier post by go2 (Reply 12) who relies on blood type distribution to "support the linguistic evidence of a common origin." In this case, your observation actually undercuts claims of a linguistic connection.
There's no shortage of verifiable documentation that convincingly refutes any previous claims of Hungarian-Finnish linguistic connection (e. g., Dr. László Marácz, Professor and Lecturer, Amsterdam University,
The Untenability of the Finno-Ugric Theory from a Linguistic Point of View: Selected Studies in Hungarian History, 2008, pp. 547-558 and 926-7). But I what I need is original research, i. e., early or contemporary field work documentation on claims of such connection. If you know of any, kindly post the info here.
Cheers