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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Bulgarian is Slavic language, I believe, while Hungarian has to do with finnish language (that is an interesting fact knowing that they are in completely different regions).
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It had been like that 2000 years ago or so since these tribes lived in more or less the same area.
But eversince the tribes separated and migrated the languages changed completely so a Hungarian would understand Finnish as much as a Slav would understand Farsi.
In fact they say that in the 19th century Hungarian was closer to Turkish and Persian than to European languages, and theň they got rid of most of the international words to avoid Germanism.
So there you have it - a language that's unparalleled worldwide. At least this is what I learned while visiting Budapest, perhaps locals can add more to it.
Otherwise the pessimism, scepticism and victim mentality is pretty much a trademark of the whole former Eastern block.