The pseudo-scientific status of the Finno-Ugric theory

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Dr. László Marácz, Professor of Linguistics, Amsterdam University, "The Untenability of the Finno-Ugric Theory from a Linguistic Point of View."

The pseudo-scientific status of the Finno-Ugric theory is based on the following statements:

1. We shall not mention anything that does not validate the Finno-Ugric theory.
2. Anyone, who criticizes the Finno-Ugric theory, can be denigrated and should be denigrated.
3. We should put words, that he did not say, into the mouth of the person who judges us, and then we should contradict this.
4. The Finno-Ugric theory is the eternal truth.
5. Double standards are permitted for Finno-Ugric linguists
6. Stating the truth is not permitted.
7. The cultural-political background of this theory is taboo.

Because the Finno-Ugric hypothesis is a function of Indo-Germanism, this theory collapsed along with the collapse of Indo-Germanism.

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But things changed: Already during the so-called Bach-era 1848-1859, but at last since the Hungarian- Austrian “Ausgleich” in 1867, the Habsburgs ordered Austrian and German professors for the chairs in linguistics and history to Budapest. One of them was the German Josef Budenz who published on behalf of the Viennese court between 1873 and 1881 his “Magyar-ugor osszehasonlito szotar” (“Comparative Hungarian-Ugric Dictionary”), where the long forgotten hypothesis of Sajnovics and Gyarmathi was freshened up again. It is obvious, what the Habsburgs wanted to show: The Hungarians, who were not more than slaves in the eyes of the Habsburgs, were not allowed to trace their origins back to the Sumerians, the first high culture that existed on earth. Rather, a connection with the Lapps, the Voguls and the Ostyaks, who lived in the 19th century still in the stone-Age, was established. Political propaganda and banishment of the adherents of the Sumerian-Hungarian theory helped a lot. After the downfall of the Austrian-Hungarian double-monarchy in 1918, the communists took over Hungary already in 1919 under the leadership of Bela Kun, then extensively in 1945 and from 1956-1989, so that the communists directly continued the Anti-Sumerian-Hungarian campaign started by their enemies, the Habsburgs, since in the end, both the Habsburgs and the communists agreed in their opinion that the Hungarians are subhuman creatures.

Nowadays, Finno-Ugristics is fully established, all Sumerian-Hungarian research is considered to be “unscientific”, representatives of this theory are blacklisted, publishing in Hungary is possible, but still difficult, because the communists are still sitting on key positions in all sectors of education (and elsewhere). Yet, there is hope, since the chairs of the FU representatives started to shake already a couple of years ago. The Tartu school of Uralistics has given up since a long time the concept of the Uralic tree-model and thus the genetic relationship of the Uralic languages:

• Kunnap, Ago, "Breakthrough in Present-Day Uralistics", Tartu 1998.

Angela Marcantonio has proven, that there is no FU language family either:

• Marcantonio, Angela, "The Uralic language Family: Facts, Myths and Statistics", Oxford 2002.

Laszlo Maracz, like the two fore-mentioned scholars a university professor, has shown both in Hungarian and in English, that in reality not the Sumerian-Hungarian, but the FU theory is unscientific:

• Maracz, Laszlo, "A finnugor elmelet tarthatatlansaga nyelveszeti szempontbol".

http://mek.oszk.hu/04500/04509/04509.pdf