Dear all, > >> As I > >> remember my linguistics only Basque and Finnish are languages west of the > >> Caucasian Mountains that aren't in the family. > > > > Also Hungarian and Lappish, which along with Finnish belong to the Finno-Ugric > > family. The other speakers are tribal peoples from east of the Ural > > mountains. > There are a couple more Finno-Ugric in upper Volga region (Chuvash, etc.) > but these will probably be extinct in a 100 years....
And do not forget the Estonians! They are even joining the EU next spring! I nearly can understand Estonian, but not quite... :-) Perhaps the difference is a little like between Italian and Spain? Arto, a Finn
