From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 35286
Date: 2004-12-03
> On 04-12-03 11:16, alexandru_mg3 wrote:Hungarian 'szarka'?
>
> > Why 'not from Proto-Slavic'? Only to can explain
> > So the Czechs and Slovaks are from Proto-Slavic but nearbyfrom
> > them 'some' 'Slavic dialects' are not from 'Proto-Slavic'?
>
> Don't be silly. Hungarian has _lots_ of old Slavic loans taken not
> the modern languages but from the Slavic dialects that were incontact
> with the Magyars during the early Middle Ages. They were_descendants_
> of PSl. in the same way that modern Czech and Slovak are. They were
> engulfed and replaced by Hungarian.
>
> Piotr