Dear Finnish and Hungarian members

[Allegro]

I will appreciate if you will listen to this short video in Khanty language and let me know if you understand ANYTHING of it.

 

[Jace]

Not a single word.

 

[4Given]

Nawp.

 

[El Perro Finlandese]

I'm pretty sure that the kid was speaking russian with a weird accent.

 

[Allegro]

Is it because because you speak Russian and can understand the speech?

 

[Bluehawk]

That is definitely not Russian, nor Slavic. I can immediately hear the Ugric sounds which I might mistake for Finnish if I didn't know the context.

 

[Radalan]

Nope. Sounds more like Mongolian to me.

 

[Scully]

That is definitely not Russian, nor Slavic. I can immediately hear the Ugric sounds which I might mistake for Finnish if I didn't know the context.

Agree with the first part, but I wouldn't mistake it for Finnish.

 

[Haresus]

I doubt I would mistake it for Finnish if I just randomly heard it.

 

[Bluehawk]

There are similar phonemes being used, but the longer you listen to it, the more obvious it is that it's somewhere east of the Urals... I meant to reassure Allegro's question, since it is, whether it sounds like it or not, linguistically related to Finnish and Hungarian.

 

[Temuzu]

Yeah, some parts sounded like they could be in Finnish, but all those throatsounds ruin any chance of it sounding like Finnish.

 

[Nahkuri]

The only thing similar to Finnish is how they pronounce 'R'. Otherwise it sounds completely alien.

 

[Bromden]

Didn't understand a word. It was full with sounds that are absent in the Hungarian language, and sounded very alien. Also the faces didn't look like Hungarian people's.

 

[Untitled.]

Sounds a bit more like a Sami language to me. Maybe it's the throat things, I'm not really sure. Definitely has some Finno-Ugric characteristics, but couldn't understand a single word of it.

 

[Allegro]

Let me know if there are any languages you guys can partly understand due to their common roots. Apart from Estonian.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

I can understand some French, and slightly less German.

 

[Allegro]

You are neither Finnish nor Hungarian, go away.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

I might be both!

But I'm not

I'm going now...

 

[Mixedpotatoes]

I tried to listen to any words I could recognise from the subtitles.
It sounds Ugric, but it has these Russian "ch"- sounds like they have dicks in their throats.

 

[Jhessail]

Yeah, very weird throat sound, like in Pashtu or Farsi or something. The intonation is very familiar though, so yeah, definitely a Finno-Ugric language. But sorry, none of the words sound familiar at all.

Let me know if there are any languages you guys can partly understand due to their common roots. Apart from Estonian.

Well, some words in Hungarian and Finnish are almost the same - words like fire, stone/rock, water, tree but that's it. Makes sense because the groups diverted from each other such a long time ago. Add to that the fact that modern intonation is quite different in Finnish and Hungarian and we can't really understand each other at all. Heck, I can't even understand Estonian.