2013. április 19., péntek

Some interesting facts about my native language, Hungarian.


I found this article so it's not my own writing, not my English but interesting.

Ove Burglund Swedish physician and translator findings:"The Hungarian language is the top product of human logic"

  • Do you know that the second constitution of the world is ours? The first of Iceland from 720, and the second St Stephen's admonition prince.
  • Did you know that at the time of the conquest of Europe, the Greeks and the Romans had just written system, and when we arrived into the Carpathian Basin, we brought a mature, ready writing, about 1,700 years?
  • Jakob Grimm the fabulist said that "Hungarian language is logical and has a perfect structure and surpasses to every other language". 
  • George Bernard Shaw : “After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.”
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  •  SIR JOHN BOWRING, English traveler and writer, visited Hungary and published an anthology in English of the work of Hungarian writers and poets. „The Hungarian language goes far back. It developed in a very peculiar manner and its structure reaches back to times when most of the now spoken European languages did not even exist. It is a language which developed steadily and firmly in itself, and in which there are logic and mathematics with the adaptability and malleability of strength and chords. The Englishman should be proud that his language indicates an epic of human history. One can show forth its origin; and all layers can be distinguished in it, which gathered together during contacts with different nations. Whereas the Hungarian language is like a rubble-stone, consisting of only one piece, on which the storms of time left not a scratch. It's not a calendar that adjusts to the changes of the ages. It needs no one, it doesn't borrow, does no huckstering, and doesn't give or take from anyone. This language is the oldest and most glorious monument of national sovereignty and mental independence. What scholars cannot solve, they ignore. In philology it's the same way as in archeology. The floors of the old Egyptian temples, which were made out of only one rock, can't be explained. No one knows where they came from, or from which mountain the wondrous mass was taken. How they were transported and lifted to the top of the temples. The genuineness of the Hungarian language is a phenomenon much more wondrous than this.”
  • The original Hungarian language is even more wonderful phenomenon!
  • Do we know that Mary's death in ancient texts we also understand to this day, as the vocabulary, and is still used today? Shakespeare's dramas of educated English only dictionary to be able to read as much language has changed over the past 440 years. Ours, held its grammar and vocabulary.
  • Did you know that the library of the British Museum's most valuable texts of the Central European incunabula begins:: „Az Ephesom helyeknek yrth Zent Pál levelének elsew capitóliuma”?- in 1533 and was written in Hungarian.
  • Did you know that while the best of the Western world's major languages,there are only seven vowels? The Italian example, only 5.we know and use the 14 Hungarian vowels.
  • Did you know that the Hungarian Institute for Musicology of the 200 000 registered Hungarian folk songs, of which 100 000 have appeared in print. In Germany, 6000 were able to collect folk songs.
  • Did you know that the language of comparison as the most melodic -  first is Italian and Greece in second place - the Hungarian's the next?
  •  CARDINAL GIUSEPPE MEZZOFANTI,“Do you know which language is equal to Latin and Greek in its structure and rhythmic harmony? It is the Hungarian language. I am familiar with the new Hungarian poets, whose verses are completely mesmerizing. Let us watch the future, for the poetic genius will have a sudden upswing, which will prove my statement to be true. It seem as if the Hungarians themselves do not realize what a treasure is hidden in their language.” 
  • Did you know that the Hungarian tale world unmatched in the whole world? 
  • The language has preserved most of the elements of the ancient culture  basic words. the following result: today's English 4%, Latin 5%, the Hebrew 5% of Pacific languages ​​7%, Indian mundakhol 9%, the Tibetan Sanskrit 12%, indigenous Turkish, Turkmen 26%, today's Hungarian 68%  included.
  • Did you know that Hungarian names, geographical names, thousands occur in different parts of the world?
Our old alphabet.