how is Finnish related to Magyar (Hungarian)?

Question

I've heard that they are related, is this true? how? why, when the peoples aren't related?

Answer 1

I think both languages belong to Fenno-Ugrian group, true, languages are very very different (I speak Finnish but could not understand a word of Hungarian, whereas Estonian language is very similar to Finnish!).
I don't know why the languages are in the same group. I'd kind of think that Hungarian is in the Slavic languages group.

Answer 2

Finnish and Hungarian are apart of the Finno- Ugric language group which include Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian. Just coz they have the same language doesn't mean that they are related people wise, just like Mexican people speaking english as a native language, or australian aborigines speak english.

Answer 3

I think they are related, because the Hungarians speak on Hungarian, which evolved from Ugrofinnish language. Their language is just the same as the old Ugrofinnish. I think that's the connection between Hungarians and Finnish.

Answer 4

Finnish and Hungarian are related distantly within the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family. They are, however, at opposite ends of the Finno-Ugric family tree. Finnish is most closely related to Estonian and they are then related to Lapp. Hungarian is most closely related to two languages of western Siberia several thousand miles away--Xanty and Mansi. The ancient Magyars left Siberia several thousand years ago and migrated across the southern Russian steppes until they reached the modern area of Hungary in 896.

Answer 5

It is believed that both languages stem from a common origin - that they both come from the same language and then evolved separately at some point in their development. Finnish and Hungarian are both within the Finno-Ugric group, unlike most European languages which are Indo-European (this includes English, Norwegian, Spanish...) and stem from a common Indo-European language (in theory of course).

Have a look at the Wikipedia article listed below, very informative.

Answer 6

I think that Finnish is Magyar's cousin twice removed.

Answer 7

They are from the same language family, but it's a big langauge family. (All language families are big.)

It's similar to the relation between English and Greek, not (say) the relation between Spanish and Italian. They branched apart much longer ago.

Answer 8

I used to be a biology teacher and vaguely remember reading that the relative frequency of the blood-group genes is similar in Finland and Hungary, but different from the neighbours of either. This would suggest that similarities in language stem from a common ancestry.

Answer 9

I think that it's not so much as they are related, but they both share the common characteristic of being not-related to Indo-European languages.

Answer 10

Honestly.............no clue. But what I do know.....isn't HIM from Finland? Well the thing I need to say is.....are all Finnish ppl as hot as the lead singer? If so I wanna go!! Are you taking me?