The beautiful magyar (Hungarian) language.

http://www.es.hu/?view=doc;25741

This video is devoted to show the beauty and unique nature of Hungarian language that is a member of the Uralic family of languages. It is distantly related to Finnish, but is most closely related to Khanty and Mansi (which each have a only few thousand speakers todays). Effectively, Hungarian is an isolate in Central Europe and unrelated to the Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages spoken in neighboring states (and all of which are a part of the Indo-European language family).

I will argue about neither historical facts nor fictions but all of chauvinist comments will be removed promptly and no matter which nationality their authors belong to.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• magyar
• Hungarian
• Uralic
• finn
• ugor
• finno
• ugric
• nyelv
• language

[GeeVee2]

Does anyone know the name of the music in this clip?

[rikanov]

@GeeVee2 The first variation on 'Haydn themes' by Brahms. I found this in the collection which contains the Brahms' Hungarian dances and this is the (distant) connection of this music to the Hungarian language.

[mgk11111]

I love Hungarian, my mother tongue. But being aware of how outlandish a language it is, I must share with you this anecdote:

After Creation, God decided to distribute languages to people. He gave each a language: took the first one and told him you speak French, the second English, the third Russian, then Italian, German, and so on and on. When the last one came, God saw that he ran out of languages, so He told him: "you speak as you wish"…..and he started to speak….Hungarian.

[mail2onur]

@rikanov

I can beat you in that. Here it goes;

"gelemeyebilirim" means "it might happen that I won't be able to come" in English.

I can push harder for creating a long word like "Avustralyalilastiramadiklarim­izdanmisiniz". This means "Are you also one of the one's, which we couldn't make Australian?" in English :D

Ofc this was Turkish which is the most widely spoken agglutinative language in the world. Also Hungarian and Turkish shares about 3500+ common word from early middle ages.

[KritaCat]

Then you could see that we are not extra-terrestrials, LOL.

And, of course, you are always welcome here :)

[tacfoley]

I have just built two MaV passenger cars for my garden railway - see them on tacs trains. Hungary? A place I love to visit - friendly people and beautiful places to see - what is not to like?

tac

[rikanov]

Actually, that friend of yours was me, just for curiosity :P

What or who can I owe for your visit to? :) I haven't seen you on msn for a very long time :((

[tacfoley]

I was interested in this post until I read the part about Hungarians being extre-terrestrials. At that point I suddenly lost interest. My Hungarian neighbour is just toooooo fat to ever fit in a flying saucer.

tac

[juhaszszsz]

In geography you can follow the Hungarian language.Greece islands /Karpathianos or Samos/ Hungarian mounten and river even today .Bihar county in India exatly the same in Hungary.Go to Italy or Japan /location Tokai -we write it Tokaj.Take an ancient map ,check Israel locations Arad-Arpad those are Hungarian names .Check Tamana web and you will find Hungarian names S-Amerika ,Afganistan Afrika all over the world .You know what? Those names spread not 10 years ago rather 10 000.Do you wonder ?etc

[ianshaw34]

Latiatuc feleym szömtökkel mik vogymuk. Isa por és chomu vogymuk.

[ianshaw34]

Galev12: No, we Hungarians are not stupid, we just act stupid sometimes, You are right. This tendency to argue over trivialities has been our bane for centuries.

[ianshaw34]

I live in South Africa and studied some African languages. To my amazement, I discovered that these languages also don"t have gender and possess only a simple past tense, just like Hungarian. Othedrwiose tehir strcutrue is completely different from any Indo-European language. In other words, when speaking English, these people often use "he" for females and "she" for males, on teh other hand, it took me years to learn the usage of the many English past tenses.

[ianshaw34]

Hey people' We are to comment on ouir language, not to fight historical battles.

Hungarians are no better or no worse than others. Yes, we suffered much injustice by more powerful nations, we"ve had our traitors, sell-outs, ethnic cleansers, but we also had excellent writers, poets, patriots, scientists,and enlightened kings like Mátyás, we fought for our freedom in 1848 and won but were were beaten down,by a superior force.We should be proud of our unique language but not to curse others

[ianshaw34]

I love my Hungarian language, the poetry,, the popular songs, the richness of expression, even the unprintable jokes. It is our tragic history that I find moving and regretful. Our language is beautiful indeed, but we are probably the worst politicians in the world. We as a nation are just as alone as our mother tongue, which is not related to any other, in spite of some dubious claims. I feel also that Budapest is unknown and underrated by most foreigners