Magyarország
Official "tumblog" of Magyarország, also known as Hungary
Come, visit this wonderful country!
Official "tumblog" of Magyarország, also known as Hungary
Come, visit this wonderful country!
The Hungarian language - claimed by many to be the most difficult language in the world - is indeed unique in Europe. Unrelated to any of its neighboring countries’ languages, it is an Ugric language from the Uralic family.
Hungarians themselves call the language magyar. It is spoken by about 15 million people in the Carpathian region (Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Slovakia) and around the world (USA, Canada and Australia).
Hungarians are very proud of their language. In the late 18th and the early 19th century, the Language Reform movement led by the great Hungarian author Ferenc Kazinczy, coined thousands of new words instead of Latin and German words to make the language as pure as possible. Today, Hungarians have their own word for things that in other languages come from Latin or Greek, such as számítógép (computer) or gyógyszertár (pharmacy). Two English words originate from Hungarian: paprika and coach (from “kocsi”, that is: “from the village Kocs”).
