man uralic languages have such obvious relations
like modern finnish is basically just the same as reconstructed proto-uralic and even highly divergent branches like hungarian are pretty much the same with some regular changes
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> modern finnish is basically just the same as reconstructed proto-uralic
Really? I was under the impression that most Finnish vocabulary had changed over the millennia with borrowings from other languages. Now that I think about it, that was probably something I misread.

@mathlover well, yeah, finnish has a LOT of borrowings (especially from germanic languages), but it tends to be a very conservative language when it comes to the vocabulary and grammar that does remain

@chjara Oh, ok. *That* makes sense, and I can definitely see that.

Thanks for clarifying!

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