davidclickpapa |
01-29-2016 04:27 AM |
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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
(Post 20714128)
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.
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about the language: hungarian is an uralic language. it is a Very distant cousin of finnish (and estonian). we have a little bit closer relation to khanty and mansi languages, spoken by a handful of people in russia. still, even with them it's mutually unintelligible, in regards of grammar and vocabulary both.
so yea, we are isolated, but not as much as euskara (basque) who haven't even traced their origins linguistically.
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