Speaking non-Indo-European languages, Hungarians, Estonians and Finns are linked by the common origin of their Finno-Ugric mother tongues, which set them apart from the majority of other European peoples. This link, however, is a remote one, and the closeness of Hungarian and the Balto-Finnic languages has been likened to that between English and Persian. In light of this, it is interesting to discover that attempts have been made to forge a closer relationship among these peoples based precisel