To: SkyDancer
Way cool.
I have heard that Hungarian is one of those languages that can’t be learned as an adult.
Also, Hungarian fencers are awesome.
50 posted on
05/28/2016 2:28:00 PM PDT by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: dsc
Hungarian is Finno-Ugric language. The principal member of the Ugric subgroup is Hungarian. Whereas English speakers usually have a vocabulary of 250,000 words only 80,000 words are needed to speak Hungarian.
Hungarian is most closely related to two languages of western Siberia several thousand miles away--Xanty and Mansi. The ancient Magyars left Siberia several thousand years ago and migrated across the southern Russian steppes until they reached the modern area of Hungary in AD896.
55 posted on
05/28/2016 2:56:08 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: dsc
Oh and PS - Magyar is pronounced Muh-jar not mag-yar as Rick Steves stupidly pronounces it.
56 posted on
05/28/2016 3:00:21 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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