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>just a guess, but how about
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Good try, but no go. I added Finnish equivalents next to your list. Quite different, I'd say.

>et = meat = liha
>pan = bread = leipä
>at = horse = hevonen

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>>>Interesting example given that to a Turk the Finnish word-sentence probably makes more sense than to anybody else <bg>
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>>lol
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>>>( I think it is Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish that share the Indo-Urduc language group )
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>>Finnish and Hungarian (and Estonian) belong to a small Fenno-Ugrian language group, and who knows what group that came from way back when. When I was in Turkey I didn't understand a word anybody said to me. Although the same thing happened in Hungary. I once spent a long night with a bunch of Hungarians drinking plum wine and trying to come up with words that are the same in both languages. As the evening progressed we laughed more and more but still couldn't come up with a single word. Finally, at 4:30 am we called it quits after finding a barely passable similarity in pronounciation at leat: "Fish" in Finnish is "kala" and in Hungarian it is "halak",
Pertti Karjalainen
Product Manager
Northern Lights Software
Fairfax, CA USA
www.northernlightssoftware.com
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