The Finnish-Hungarian language relations

[blogen]

I dont know what your "western" is but Finland is culturally identical to the Scandinavian countries.
It is not just my opinion, ask them if they think they are closer to Hungary, or better yet, ask the Brits.

Yes, a little more close to Russia, but basically identical with Scandinavia. But the whole Scandinavia is not clearly western, since the Fennoscandia is too differ from the Western core (France, Central Germany, North Italy for example). Sometimes I see this region than a better Sovietunion, with their ideological fanatism and better working socialism.

[Proto-Shaman]

It is now widely recognised in the specialist literature that Hungarian is radically different – in Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon and Syntax – from the Ob-Ugric languages; see for example Abondolo (1987:185 and 1998: 428), Sammallahti (1988:500), Helimski (1984:253) and Salminen (1997: 86). It does not therefore come as a surprise to realize that the Ugric node (Hungarian and the Ob-Ugric languages) has consistently defied the many attempts to its reconstruction (see for example Hajdú (1987: 306), Sammallahti (1988: 484) and Abondolo[3] (1998: 428)). Nevertheless, it was assumed at the time of the formation of the conventional paradigm, and is still widely assumed to this day.