Comments on: Old World Language Families https://vividmaps.com/old-world-language-families/ Maps that explain the World Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anitta https://vividmaps.com/old-world-language-families/#comment-6312 Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:27:06 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/2015/03/22/old-world-language-families/#comment-6312 Almost no one hears my accent when speaking English. Occasionally someone does, usually a person with some linguistic training and especially after I have recently spoken my native language. They question: “Where are you from?” Some have come close. One even pegged the district. There is curiosity about the origin of the language. A high school teacher explained it this way: it’s as if you went to sleep in your bed and woke up in a jungle village on the other side of the world and no one else spoke your language, nor knew where you had come from.

[Your research did not include an article in a Finnish magazine some years ago – 1973ish? – which claimed there are about 200 Finnish words which are identical (or nearly so) in sound and meaning to Japanese.]

Nevertheless this map shows why it appears that the origin of the Finnish language has no rational explanation.

Thank youl

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