Ural-Altaic hypothesis? #shorts

[Albert-Arthur-Wison]

A Finnish chap who became, I believe, the first and ONLY white European to serve in the Japanese Diet ( which is even MORE mono - racial / mono - ethnic than the broader society itself ) was a Finn, and, I recall him mentioning how much more approachable Japanese is for Finns to grasp than for, say, English or German speakers.

[beacurnearecurvata]

I am swedish and I have always thought that finish people sound kinda japanese when they speak and that japanese sound kinda finnish.

[dendencars]

Well according to history, Turkic people and Mongolians are definetly related especially in the early states like Xiongnu. Koreans also do have slight nomadic early traits from the same place as Turks and Mongols. Japanese weren’t really nomadic, but they are related to Koreans. (Also Tengrism was also an influence in the Korean reigon).

[khanate]

btw Finland and Korea more related to each other than Iceland and India

[ChadKakashi]

Makes sense. Still like those languages. Turkic, Japanese, Finnish, all cool stuff.

[StanbyMode]

Turkic and Mongolian are related, Korean and Japanese are related, but they are not all related with eachother

[salade]

No, Japanese belongs to Japonic language, not Altaic.

[AnttiKivivalli]

I couldn't find the original short video on Finnish on TikTok, but Finnish for sure is not a SOV order language. 🙂

[JeanNeuenfeldt]

You really know your stuff. Linguistics is such a vast corpus/discipline that of course we can't learn it all. We have similar interests. But you have properly trained yourself for explaining an Introductory for mere human anglophones. **applause** for an effort that that can be so called.

[nurettinsarul]

I think Turkic branch is a bridge between Uralic branch and Mongolic-japonic branch.

[nukhetyavuz]

Whats more logical than that? When it comes to indo European or proto indo European you always come up with a connection, even though there is a slight possibility that even the structure is the same, but a stronger evidence is in ural altaic that whatever vocabulary u use, the structure is the same… so structure prevails vocabulary, the words and people in the region that effected each other or were related come later…

[AbayIskakOfficial]

One of my grandfather from Altay Region

[KingsleyAmuzu]

Visegrad languages, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian etc., ..

[mergencytype]

I think they are related. I strongly doubt they influenced each other to that extent.

[rabbiswit]

finnish is definitely uralic but japanese or korean being related to altaic is conjecture.

[matt]

what do the numbers with the slashes in the text mean

[thetornadocrusader]

And there is an idea that uralic is related to indo European

[ExistentiallyDreading]

I don't know what any of these words mean but I like your funny words magic man.

[jallil]

no, just because they have sov (which i dont know what your talking about i speak finnish and hungarian and neither of them have good sov) doesn't mean they are related. Uralic languages may be sparsly related to northern Altaic langauges but finnish and japanese aren't related.

[Hampter-mr]

I am pro-altaic fan. But I still feel not sure uralic is the same as the