Re: Finnish KASKA

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53839
Date: 2008-02-21

No, I misunderstood. Your usage was correct, just a
bit ambiguous.

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> So, if Finnish is not Uralic, what is it? On the
> Wikipedia site they give a pretty convincing
> argument
> that it's related to Saami, Estonian, Hungarian et
> al.
> Is that a conspiracy?
>
> ============
>
> I miswrote what I meant.
>
> I meant Finnish features cannot be taken
> to be inherited from proto-Uralic.
> If Finnish has -i-
> it does not mean Proto-Uralic had it.
>
> Sorry for the obscurities.
>
> Finnish is obviously an Uralic language.
>
> Arnaud
>
> ============
>
>
>



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