How do the Uralic languages, like Finnish and Hungarian, differ from their Indo-European neighbors?

May 06 2023

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Uralic languages have a vastly different vocabulary from their Indo-European counterparts, with a significant portion of their lexicon being indigenous. Though there are still loanwords from other languages, especially Germanic and Slavic languages for Finnish, and Latin, German, and Slavic languages for Hungarian, native vocabulary is much more prevalent. This is in sharp contrast to some Indo-European languages that have heavy borrowings from Latin, Greek, and other ancient or neighboring languages.

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