The Eighth Tribe, 1977 (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1977-01-01 / 1. szám
January, 1977 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 9 The structure of a language, however, remains basically constant. Nonetheless, such basic terms that refer to the parts of the human body, or express the relationship between close relatives, as well as those that express simple numerals should show some similarities in related languages. Yet, the relationship among languages still depends largely upon their similar structural peculiarities. In the case of the Uralic (Finno- Ugric) and Altaic languages, these peculiarities include — among others — the use of prefixes and suffixes, vowel harmony, unchanging ending of adjectives and adverbs, and the use of singular numerals with plural nouns. As an example of the last peculiarity, only someone speaking a Uralic or an Altaic language would say “three apple” when he means “three apples.” (Hungarian: három alma;” Turkish: “iic elma”) But now that we have established WHO the Magyars are, both from an ethnic and from a linguistic point of view, let us turn to the question: “Where did they come from?” — to be continued THE LINGUISTIC EE LA'TIONSHIPS___OF THE MAGYARS URAL-ALTAIC Several languages and. dialects (e.g. Tunguz, Manchu, Evenki, Even, Nanaya, Ulcha, etc.)
