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In article <5fcp48$rju$1...@news04.deltanet.com>, Eric Chevalier
<URL:mailto:et...@deltanet.com> wrote:
> 
> In <331b5667...@news.interlog.com>,
> b...@nospam.deus.com (William de Haan) writes:
> 
> >Finnish is an extremely brutal language for an English speaking person
> >to try and learn, believe me. In the 1960s, I lived in Port Arthur (now
> >Thunder Bay) in Canada, a city that has the largest Finnish expatriate
> >population in the world. Trying to learn that language, I damn near
> >choked to death a couple of times. Swedish and Danish aren't quite so
> >bad, but Icelandic and Finnish... urgh. Something about having 18 consecutive
> >vowels in a row always threw me for a loop :-)
> 
> Several years ago I worked at a shop where one of my co-workers was from
> Finland.  We had several talks about the language, and she claimed that 
> the only European language that was closely related to Finnish was 
> Hungarian!  To this day I've wondered what historical quirks caused that
> to be true.
> 
 Well, nobody knows, but Finnish and Hungarian languages do not belong to
Indo-European group of languages - that means they are different from all
European and large number of Asian languages. Think about it - English and
Sanskrit have a lot in common, English and Finnish not...

If I remember coreectly, these are the only languages that do not
have separate words for "he", "she" and "it".

 "It does not explain anything, but puts it in a proper light"

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