Uniquely among European languages, Hungarian has no similarities with other languages, except for a very slight relationship with Finnish. This despite the fact that Hungary is a land-locked country slap-bang in the middle of Europe.
(Apparently - by which I mean I just looked this up on wikipedia - this is because Hungarians and Finns were originally the same people who migrated from somewhere in Siberia, a group which then spilt up, the people who would become the Finns going North, the would-be Hungarians pitching up in what is now Hungary).
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