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in reply to a message by Kirke
I thought I heard somewhere that it was its own branch of Slavic. Since it's so close to the South Slavic languages geographicaly, it would make sense.
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It's in it's own branch just as Slavic is it's own. Whereas Slavic branches off into many more languages the Albanian group does not. And it wouldn't make sense to me based on geography because it often doesn't mean much. Romanian, for example, is a Romance language. Hungarian is not even an Indo-European language while many languages spoken in India are. The only languages in Europe in the same group(Finno-Ugric)as Hungarian are Finnish and Estonian.
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I never mentioned Magyar (Hungarian). It's an intrusive language closer to Central Asian languages. Or Romanian. Macedonian and Greek are used in Eastern Europe too, but I guess you assumed I knew they're Hellinistic. Or Lihtuanian and Latvian, wherever they fall. With the knowledge of Slavics that I have, and what I looked up, it didn't look right to me.
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Falemnderit. I already knew about Romanian being a Romance language and Hungarian not being a Slavic. I may have been confused on a few things, but I'm not a complete idiot.
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Actually I was just using those as examples of languages that are not Slavic in a geographic area where most languages are Slavic. I never said you didn't know this but you're not the only one that reads this so I wanted to make clear examples for anyone else that read the entry.
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He did say
"Hungarian is not even an Indo-European language while many languages spoken in India are."
:)
"Hungarian is not even an Indo-European language while many languages spoken in India are."
:)
This message was edited 8/22/2008, 8:56 PM
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