Magyar Origins offers a reasonable hypothesis that Hungarian and its related languages of Finnish and Estonian are related to Sanskrit....A finely researched blend of genealogy and language studies, Magyar Origins presents a strong and well-reasoned case.
--Midwest Book Review What if everything you thought you knew about Hungarians and the Finns was wrong?
For almost two centuries linguists have promoted the idea that a group of languages called Finno-Ugrian share a common origin in the south Urals or western Siberia. These people evolved their language in isolation of other languages and today among their descendents are the Finns and Hungarians. Linguists claim these primitive people owed all aspects of their culture, and much of their language, to the Slavs who they encountered later.
But recent scientific discoveries draw into question everything linguists have been saying on this topic. Geneticists now agree that Hungarians are not related to the other Finno-Ugrian speakers; but rather, Hungarians originated in Central Asia. And instead of living in isolation, archaeologists now argue that the Indo-Iranian homeland was within the Finno-Ugrian zone!
In fact some of these archaeological sites are so similar archaeologists have trouble distinguishing if they are Indo-Iranian or Finno-Ugrian. While linguistics promotes the idea that Finno-Ugrians had a primitive religion with Shamans, archaeologists universally agree that the Finno-Ugrians were sharing religious ideas with the Indo-Aryans and were worshiping Indo-Aryan gods.
A complete re-write from previous editions, this book explores the possibility that the Finno-Ugrian languages are actually a form of adopted Indo-Aryan, commonly known as Sanskrit; adopted as the Indo-Aryans expanded mining and agriculture into the Finno-Ugrian zone.
About the Author: Frank Sandor is the youngest of four children born in Canada to Hungarian immigrants. His parents fled Hungary during the 1956 uprising after his father escaped from a Russian POW camp. Frank now lives in Maple Ridge with his wife and son. Frank has always been interested in anthropology, spending many summers in Utah studying its numerous archaeological remains. In his forties Frank combined his love of anthropology with the investigative skills he developed as a peace officer and the analytical skills developed from years of analyzing computer systems, and turned his attention towards the question of Hungarian origins.
Frank Sandor has an Associate Degree in Criminology from Douglas College, as well as having attended both the British Columbia Institute of Technology and Simon Fraser University. Frank is a former member of the American Anthropological Association. Frank's hobbies include traditional archery, bow hunting and robotics.
