posted 01-25- 09:41 AM
East European? That's not Hungarian or Polish , definitely. That would be Central Europe.
(but I'm serious otherwise).
To me it sound a bit Ugric (Ugro-Finian - don't know how it's called in that northern american language: English
) and that would point to Hungarian. Any Hungarians here to confirm/disprove?
Any Finns maybe, you should know too.
I'm in ranting mood so here it goes.
All European langages belong to Indo-European group (comapare for instance germ. mutter, eng. mother with Russian mater', latin mater, French mere and so on) with the exceptions of Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian (Ugric?) and Basque which is a great enigma. Some see it's speakers as the last remnants of pre Indoeuropean population of this continent.
Hmmm, I forgot about the languages of peoples inhabitating eastern fringes of Europe and Caucasus (a real melting pot, another, similar to Pyrenees 'refuge area' where living fossils of languages can be found on this continent).
Slavic languages (to which Polish belongs) are linguisticly closely related to Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, extinct Prussian) together with which they are often considered to belong to one Balto-Slavic group. The above bears evidences of closest linguistic proximity to Germanic group.
I hope you find the above being a nice interval in between the physically and mentally exhausting missions 
Aha, Spanky, give Hungarian a try. (but don't quote me on that
)
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9./JG3_Poniat
[This message has been edited by Poniat (edited 01-25-2001).]