Re: [tied] M. Zakiev

He's a kook all right, and the whole "Turanian Resource Centre" website (www.hunmagyar.org) is a nest of kooks. Their epoch-making discoveries include the derivation of "Turanian" (basically, an arbitrary combination of other people's Uralo-Altaic with "Caucasian", Scythian/Sarmatian and a number of indubitably Iranian languages like Median or Parthian) from Sumerian roots. They also seem to believe that Hungarian is not a Uralic language but an independent branch of "Turanian". It's all too silly to merit discussion. Since the owners of the site prefer to remain anonymous (as far as I've been able to see), God knows whose frustrations or patriotic sentiments underlie this whole Turanian enterprise.

Piotr

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From: george knysh

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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:14 PM

Subject: Fwd: [tied] M. Zakiev

Corrected URL! Sorry. --- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote: > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com > From: george knysh <gknysh@...> > Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 03:08:40 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: [tied] M. Zakiev > > The author of "Ethnic roots of the Tatar people" > (cf. > http://www.hunmagyar.org/tatar/tatar-origin.html > M. Zakiev seems like a kook to me, judging by his > Scythian etymologies. Would our linguists agree with > this cursory judgement?