Once i had a lil (2 chapters) book on it on my very first acc that i lost access 2)..
There i only managed to write on letters & sounds and some vocab 4 introductions, taken from an website.. it won't be the case anymore ^^
Here ill step back, look for the errors i made, or rather i repeated, cs i took info from a romanian website (& it was wrongly transliterated, you know, writing in pronunciation for the text..)
The first thing about any language is learning its letters and sounds (or firstly the sounds if you want to rather aquire it, than to struggle to bookishly learn it, lol)
But id like to start with some curiosities on the language (& more basic facts id say)
1. It's real name is Magyar (& dont you confuse magyars w huns, btw, theyre not the same)
2. Its the national & official language of Hungary, an Eastern European language.
3. It is a Ugric/Finno-Urgic language of the Uralic language family as their origin was supposed to be in the region of the Urals
[(to not confuse with Caucasus, which are farther East, and go through Russia's border region (Greater Caucas) with Georgia & Armenia (at Lesser Caucasus))
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Source on r/MapPorn: Detailed Map of the Caucasus Mountains Region an Ethinc Groups..
Sorry, big paranthesis here, i almost began to think this chapter was on the mountains, lol, got too much into it, ig 😅]
Ok.. back on Hungarian: 4. So its closest relatives here are actually Estonian & Finnish (spoken in Northern Europe, Estonia & Finland).
5. This language has 14 vowels.. FOUR-TEEN... so bye-bye simple 5 (or 8 in my native, lol).. in Hungarian we have alongside the basic a, e, i, o, u, also the umlauts ö & ü and the longvowels for the simples á é í ó ú & the long umlauts (or something of the like) ő, ű ... *The pronunciation of each is slightly different and can change the meaning of a word completely. 💚🤍🫠
6. World order is flexible, but not really, freely so (there gotta be some boundaries ofc, otherwise).. there are still rules on how words need to be arranged (for the sentence to make sense and not sound like.. 'uhm, what?' This ofc depends on the emphasis of the sentence, and the sense conveyed (similar as in other languages, esp my native).
Well now a BOMB of a fanfact 7. Christopher Columbus is famous for his trips to America, but the Hungarian language may just be proof that a Magyar was there before him. In Yarmouth County Museum, a stone can be found which is inscribed with an early form of Old Hungarian - which was the dialect from a time well before Columbus explored the earth.
8. Btw, b4 Christianisation & its passing to latin letters (& you can thank italian & if i dont mistake, german scribes for some confusing doubles & the only triple) it used runes.. the same as vikings, but much rounder 😍😍😍...
& ofc every language fanfacts has to have a whats the longest word (or longest commonly used, im looking at you German, word) 9. The longest in Hungarian has 44 letters (only?) & it's a phrase (ofc): Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért & it means something along the line "for your [plural] continued behaviour as if you could not be desecrated". (& now thinking of its broader meaning i think it could be used anyhow, unlike the guy who wrote the article on theculturetrip.com)
10. But actually words can be much longer, as it is an agglutinative language which means that various grammatical components - such as affixes and stems - can be added to a word to increase its length (and change its meaning)
Thanks to this, words of more than 100 letters have been created in the past, although the longer the word, the more it can tend to lose its meaning.
11. Over the years, since its creation as a language, Hungarian has evolved and changed just like any other dialect. However, staying true to its ancient roots, Hungarian contains a whopping 68% of its etymons, or original words. Compare this with the 4% retained by the English language, or the 5% kept by Hebrew, and the scale is even more impressive. (Im in shock, o.o ... ok at this point im only copying from the trip website)
12. When faced with describing something red, Hungarians have two words to choose from. "Piros" and "vörös" both offer up the same meaning. However, slightly confusingly, they are interchangeable in some cases and not in others. Wine is always vörös, for example, while blood or a rose can be either.
13. When introducing yourself in Hungary, your given name is always stated after your surname. For example, Tamás Nagy would be introduced as Nagy Tamás. This can catch some visitors out, however the given name is still the one used when speaking to or about someone. (Similar in my language, it might be a feature many Eastern European cultures share, as they put more emphasis on the family of someone maybe, like in my culture for example (Romanian/Moldavian, Besserabian) it used to matter much & even people will ask, "de-al cui tu ești?", in English "whose are you?" tho i think it's not common only in my region..)
14. Not only does the Hungarian alphabet feature 44 letters in total, but some of those counted as letters are in fact made up of two or even three (only one of them is in 3). Confused yet? Take, for example, "dzs", a letter in the Hungarian alphabet pronounced as "j", or "sz" which equates to "s". ____________________
