The Hungarian language (magyar nyelv)
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In this clip from my long video on Hungarian, I talk about some basic background info on the language.
Fitting due to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 with the Cumans.
Hungarian is like the Asian guy who moved into an all white neighborhood and fits right in
As a Hungarian, I never saw this comparison before but it’s perfect
@@mysteriousDSFDo you guys consider yourself European ? Bulgarian and Turks came originally from Asia too and now they don’t look Asian at all
@@mysteriousDSF as an Asian who has watched Paul’s full video on the Hungarian language, I agree 😂
“How did they get there?”
Hungarians are Ugric (Uralic) people, and moved there from Siberia. Their closest relatives are Hanty and Mansi peoples.
During migration, the Hungarian language took lots of influence from the Turkic languages.
That’s just one theory among others.
My understanding is that the original place or migration route etc. is less certain (and it’s difficult to tie languages to archaeological finds if those societies weren’t literate). But its closest relatives being the Hanty and Mansi languages has as strong evidence as most other language relations.
They’re also distantly related to Finnish people.
Oh now you’ve done it … the Hungarian ethnonationalists are gonna come for you. Can’t have anything that contradicts their racial-purity fantasies.
@@toade1583And Russians, Baltics, Swedes, Poland, Belarus. Distantly though. We really need a better word for this group because “Finnic” gives modern folk the idea of it being related to Finland, or of origin therein, when in reality it was a people group that mixed and merged with the people before them over a very large area.
Interesting, because Suomi (Finnish), a language I am endlessly fascinated with and a cognate to Magyar, as you know, is also surrounded by Indo-European languages: all the Scandinavian languages to the west including Danish, the Balto-Slavics and Russian to the east. It would be easy to confuse it with those, superficially. Interesting, because Turkish is in the same linguistic land lock with the Arabic speaking countries.
Strangely enough, Eesti (Estonian) is also surrounded by Baltic and Slavic languages
Well Turkish is still different, it has lots of other language families surrounding it. Only 2 of its neighbors are Arabic.
Greece, Bulgaria, Iran, Armenia(Indoeuropean)
Azerbaijan(Turkic)
Georgia(Kartvelian)
Syria and Iraq(arabic)
But I really wonder how Hungarians and Finns got to their respective locations and when.
Not too long ago, modern Turkey was part of many other empires, where many languages have been spoken. Turkish people came from central Asia only in 11th century.
Anatolians were originally lndoeuropeans. Goturks imposed their language upon them in 12th century
@@subhuman3408 Mostly Indo-European, but not exclusively. e.g. Hattic and Uratrian.
Uralic languages were commonplace in what is nowadays considered Russia, but the Slavs conquered and stole the homelands of Uralic peoples and Uralic people are very oppressed nowadays. For example Saint Petersburg was built on Ingrian land who were closely related people of Finns. And what is now Russia to the East of Finland is Carelia, home to Carelian people with their own unique Uralic language and culture. Carelia was stolen by Russia during wars. Majority of what is known as “Russia” used to be land of Uralic peoples and other groups. So when we look at the people who originally resided in those areas East of Finland and Estonia, it is no wonder how Uralic speakers from thousands of years ago ended up in Estonia and Finland. So happy to hear you are interested in Finnish language ❤😊
This is very interesting, and it is a very hard language for me to understand. We travel all year and move to a new country every month and do our best to learn the language and dialect, so very hard, but it is one of our passions
WOW! What an interesting life you have!
This is why I love Langfocus and Paul.
everyone ask about this language or that Language but i wanna ask like How Languages are made and Who decides like How latin split into other romance Languages or Old norse into other Languages as well as Proto germanic ?
I would find such discussions fascinating. Latin especially interests me, how it became Italian for starters; why not remain Latin? Spanish and French, second, with a detour on how Portuguese and Spanish are related. I understand how the Pyrenees kept Spanish and French apart. Then how did Latin influence Olde English, which wasn’t even English until the Anglos and Saxons corrupted what the Romans had corrupted from some almost unknown ancestor.
Even in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, there were already different dialects of Latin spoken in different regions, and the nobles and intelligentsia spoke and especially wrote what they thought were more “refined” forms than the common people. This is like the UK (a much smaller area) with regional dialects, and the clear difference between RP and stereotypical working class accents.
@@grizwoldphantasia5005Well, Old English, which is actually really Old Anglo-Saxon, has next to no Latin in it.
There was some influx of words of Latin origin with the Normans, but most of English’s Latin influence actually came in during the Middle Ages, from both The Church and from Universities, where students and faculty all spoke Latin (as it was the one language they all had in common).
@@John_Weiss See, that’s the kind of stuff that could fill a good long episode. Start with pre-Roman invasion and work through the ages, probably at least into the mid-1800s to get some American changes and influences after the 1776 split.
You might wanna read more on historical linguistics, linguistic typology and genealogical linguistics if you are interested!
Most amazing language ever. 😎👍🇭🇺
Are there any fluent writers of Hungarian runes?
Yes, though very few.
👍🏻👍🏻
Kingdom of hungry is where I usually live at 2 am 😅😅😅
It’s intriguing because hungary 🇭🇺 name in arabic is al majjar المجر
The name “هنغاريا” (closer to English “Hungary”) is also used. I often hear both.
Paul is _Pál_ in Hungarian. Here are some Hungarian words:
ember – person, human
testvér – sibling (literally body-blood)
pillangó – butterfly
szeretlek – I love you
gyönyörű – beautiful
napraforgó – sunflower (literally onto-the-sun spinner)
holdfogyatkozás – lunar eclipse
összeegyeztethetetlenség – incompatibility
Szeretet Magyarországnak és a magyar nyelvnek Angliából! I love Hungary and it’s language, I first visited Budapest in 2021 and was able to make a couple of other trips to the country during a period I spent living and working in Austria. I’m now back in England but learning the Hungarian language as a hobby, I find it so fascinating due to it’s non indo-european roots. Love the country, it’s language and its people and hope to go back sometime soon! Milyen gyönyörű ország Magyarország
Don’t forget the Hungarian influence on English! That’s where we get our word Goulash (comes from the Hungarian word gulyás), which is a nice stew!
Very interesting. I just realized why we call their country “Majarestan” in Farsi. It literally means “The land of the Majars”. So interesting!
Half a century / a century ago, there were more Hungarian villages in the same Ukraine and Romania. Almost all of Transylvania was populated by Hungarians. It’s just that the policy of national states in the 20th century narrowed the area of distribution of Hungarians, made it more contrasting. Actually, like all other nationalities.
That’s not true,even the Austro-Hungarian censuses contradict you!
@@vladodobleja748 the general idea is that most hungarians were killed over 200 years of ottoman wars. After the austrians won the hungarian crown, they promoted immigration from surrounding countries to “start up” all the empty mines and farms. as you can see, this permanently altered ethnic/linguistic/cultural borders.
My mom’s grandparents were Hungarian. But her father passed when I was a baby, so I never learned any Hungarian words until I visited Hungary as part of a youth group, and again briefly after college. When I finally make it back there again, I plan to take my mom so she can experience those family roots. Then we’ll drive to Italy to trace her other ancestry! Praying that she fends off her Alzheimer’s long enough for it to happen. 🙏 🌍
Oddly enough, it makes sense that the nomadic tribe decided to stay in that one flat area in Central Europe.
Is there a part two?