Possibili affinità linguistiche tra le lingue uralo­altaiche e il giapponese da Klaproth al XX secolo

The macro-Altaic hypothesis and Turanism on one hand and the effect of the foreign newspapers and publications together with the diffusion of Orientalism on the other have triggered the interest also in Hungary toward the Asiatic countries and in particular toward Japan. So from the 19th century among the Hungarian linguists we have some particularly involved in researches concerning the linguistic affinities between Hungarian and Japanese or - from a broader point of view - between the Uralic languages and Japanese. In this paper I provide an outline of these works.