What Hungarians told me, Martin, was that at a distance, Finnish
sounds a lot like Hungarian, but when they get closer, it isn't the
same at all. Then they tell me Hungarian is unique.
Doug
On 27-Apr-09, at 4:49 PM, Martin Walker wrote:
> I've been told Finnish is the same language as Hungarian, only the
> same words mean different things - that true?
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