jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) (05/03/85)
> > Recently I heard that someone had firmly linked a SF Bay Area Indian > language to the Finno-Ugric family, which includes Finnish, Hungarian, > Lappish (?) and possibly some language in Mongolia. > > The strongest tie was with the language spoken by Laplanders, about whom > I know very little -- they live in the extreme northernmost parts of > Europe -- I'd assume in Finland, Russia, and maybe on the icemass around > the north pole, though that's deduction and not knowledge on my part. > > -michael The Lapps are nomadic reindeer herders who live mostly in Scandinavia. The Scandinavian governments allow the Lapps to migrate freely over their borders. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff