Re: [tied] Fw: [language-origins] Origin of the Sumerian language

From: juhavs
Message: 21328
Date: 2003-04-28

Piotr,

The affinity between the Finns and the Sumerians cannot get any
closer than this:

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0111/reviews/elvis

http://www.drammondt.com/leven.htm


OK, I do wish it would be even closer as much of the Sumerian legacy
has now been stolen or destroyed...

Cheers, Juha












--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geraldine Reinhardt" <waluk@...>
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> Subject: [tied] Fw: [language-origins] Origin of the Sumerian
language
>
>
> > Any truth to the following that Sumerian was more closely
related to Finnish than to I-E or Semitic?
>
> No. In fact, all existing theories about the external affinities
of Sumerian inspire very little confidence. Many "long-rangers" seem
to accept the possibility that Sumerian is a distant cousin (within
Nostratic) of both IE and Uralic (the latter family includes
Finnish), and that there is a still remoter relationship between all
of them and Afroasiatic (including Semitic). But no facts known to
me justify the claim that Sumerian has some kind of special
relationship to Finnish (or to Finno-Ugric). Notwithstanding
which, "proving" that Hungarian and Sumerian are closely connected
is a popular sport among amateur linguists in Hungary.
>
> Piotr