Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family's origins

[NNadir]

1. This reminds me of a joke my German Professor told.

Finnish apparently has sixteen (if I recall correctly) cases making German (with four) look easy.

The joke was "The Finnish Parliment spends 11 months of the year debating grammar and then for one month, everyone agrees to speak Swedish and get all their work done."

I wonder if this result will lead to renaming the language class something other than Uralic.

Hungarian is in this language class, and I have always wondered whether there is some quality in that language which accounts for all of the great Hungarian scientists who emigrated to the US in the 20th century., almost all of them incredible, the so called "Martians." I do believe that one's native language has a profound effect on how one thinks.

I used to think Basque was a related language, but apparently not. Basque is completely unique.