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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Re: Language Families/Native American Languages
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 14:29:14 EDT
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> 
>      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

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