hungarian language
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A short presentation on Hungarian language: alphabet, history, relation to other languages and some funny examples.TRANSCRIPT
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Hungarian language Cipőfűző wtf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlVMjPNYCk&feature=share
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Short history ! First Latin text containing Hungarian words: 1055
establishing charter of abbey of Tihany
! First known Hungarian text: 1192-95 Funeral Sermon and Prayer
! The official language in Hungary since 1836
! Language reform: end of 1800s – beginning of 1900s ç science without latin (cipőfűző)
ferervaru rea meneh hodu utu rea
Fehérvárra menő hadi útra
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Main Facts ! Uralic language family – Finno-Ugric
! 17 million speakers (ca. 15 million native)
! The most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe
! 10 dialects
! Stress is always on the first syllable
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Finnish Estonian
1 yksi üks
2 kaksi kaks
3 kolme kolm
father isä isa
child lapsi laps
horse hevonen hobune
tree puu puu
day päivä päev
night yö öö
eat syödä sööma
cry hauta haud
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Finnish Estonian Hungarian
1 yksi üks egy
2 kaksi kaks kettő
3 kolme kolm három
father isä isa apa
child lapsi laps gyerek
horse hevonen hobune ló
tree puu puu fa
day päivä päev nap
night yö öö éjszaka
eat syödä sööma eszik
cry hauta haud sír
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Alphabet ! Extended Latin alphabet
! 44 letters (Q, W, X, Y)
A Á B C Cs D Dz Dzs E É F G Gy H I Í J K L Ly M N Ny O Ó Ö Ő P Q R S Sz T Ty U Ú Ü Ű V W X Y Z Zs
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Special vowels and consonants ! ‘Long vowels’
! Á É Í Ó Ő Ú Ű ! Independent letters
agy ágy el él
! Long consonants ! Letter duplication ! tt, gg, zz, ll ! But simplified in writing: sz+sz è ssz, gy+gyè ggy, etc.
! Double (triple) consonants ! Cs, Dz, Gy, Ly, Ny, Sz, Ty, Zs (Dzs)
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Special vowels and consonants ! G-Gy, N-Ny, T-Ty
! Y changes the pronunciation ! Different use in most of the cases
! L-Ly ! Luk = lyuk (hole), but gulya-gúla ! Ly pronounced as J, but written differently – no
rule ! J-only, Ly-only, different meaning
fojt folyt
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The most common letter is
! E
! Over 12%
! Language game: ‘eszperente language’ it also exists in Italian
! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lr9ai__cx4&feature=related