butterfly = lypänty That is fascinating. lypänty ~ lopendav (in estonian) ~ flapping (in english) ~laperdav (in estonian) (estonian) lepp , lepa = alder (Alder has very flapping leaves) (estonian) lepa+triinu = ladybug (flapping+lady with a lot of freckles like Pipi; ladybug is also flapping a lot)
Sounds a lot like Hungarian but the words not making sense, although I can certainly feel the structure & spirit. Khanty looks like a culture where the Hun-like Magyars and Native Americans crossed paths. Even Navajo sounds like Hungarian to me but with a lisp, which if I'm not mistaken, the Navajo originally lived the Dené-Yeniseian region, very close to where the Magyars and Khanty lived.
@Hopihe37 In Khanty. One - äj, two - kathän, three - köläm, four - njälä, five - vät, six - kut, seven - lapät, eight - njyläkh, nine - irjeng, ten - jeng, twenty - kös, hundred - sot, thousand - čöras. Tree - jukh, birch - sükhmät, pine - önčäkh, christmas tree - köl, leaf - lypät. A fly - pölängk, bee - ikhänty, butterfly - lypänty, ant - kačngi, spider - jämsärki, mosquito - käjngi, fish - kul. House - kot. Beef - njavi. I don't know - äntä vulem. I don't speak it, but I have a dictionary.
Sot was proven to be borrowed from Proto-Indoeuropean by Proto-Finno-Ugric peoples a few thousand years ago, therefore the Russian word is no mere coincidence. Just like the number 7 - the Finno-Ugric also borrowed it. I think it was even proven by linguists, because the people did meet at the right sort of time to swap words like that.
Clear similarities with Finnish: two - kathän - kaksi, three - köläm - kolme, four - njälä - neljä, six - kut - kuusi; hundred - sot - sata; spider - jäsärki - hämähäkki; fish - kul - kala; house - kot - kota (in Lapland)
great squirrel! we have plain black and grey here but those ears are super...there's a bit of sami sound in the lyrics sometimes. This show must have been done in Estonia or maybe Finland...I saw a shop name Seppala :) thanks !
"Alma" is a turkish word, and only 21% of the hungarian words come from finno-ugoric. I think the similarities are rather can be found in the grammar. Like my friends told me who learn finnish (but also speak english and german) that finnish is way easier for them, because in grammar we have so many similarities, and also the sounds are similar, so finnish is quite easy for us to pronounce.
again, quite interesting and these squirrels are magnificent...we have grey and black (a genetic variant of the grey) so nothing as beautiful as these....I do not know how I didn't see this vid earlier but that is now corrected :)
I'm not an expert but khanty and mansi are two languages which are very close to each other. Khanty is spoken in a wider geographical territory than mansi. The other name of khanty is 'ostyak' and 'vogul' is the second name of mansi. Linguistics say that these two languages are the closest to Hungarian.
Khanty and Mansi people are NOT related to Hungarians! The ancestors of the Magyars had influenced them culturally, because at one point in time they were neighbors, thats all!! In reality they are NOT original Finno-Ugrians, but Paleo-Asiatic tribes who became assimilated by Uralic tribes!
So far relatives cannot be researched by blood, but the language is the biggest proof. The similarity of suffixes in Hungarian and Mansi is enormous :)
