ON "URAL-ALTAIC" LANGUAGES THEORY
Languages and linguistics is a subject that has fascinated me, since I was a small kid. When I was young, I liked to listen to the sound of other languages and I thought it could be connected to music. As a music lover, I wished I could find a job that would combine both language and music. I had even written an article at our school newspaper at High School, about the connection of language and music. Because I seriously believe that both the sound of a language is its music and the language, which a song is sung in, plays a major role in the whole song. Something that made me seriously consider my studying linguistics, was the fact that I had always loved to search about the great language families. What I had realised was that most historical-comparative linguists deal with the Indo-European language families. And I asked myself: "Why not study the rest of them?". Well, this question of mine was one of the reasons why I started learning Finnish, but that's a complete...