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

May 06 2023

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Another striking feature of Uralic grammar is the extensive use of cases. Finnish, for example, has 15 cases, while Hungarian has 18. This is considerably more than most Indo-European languages, which typically use fewer cases in their declension systems, such as German with only four, and English with virtually none.

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