Hungarian
Magyar
Hungarian belongs to the same family as Finnish and Estonian, but split from them so long ago that the kinship is no longer audible at all. Surrounded on every side by Indo-European languages, it remains a linguistic island in the middle of Europe. It has some fifteen cases, practises vowel harmony, and its double accents ő and ű exist in no other language.
- Family
- Finno-Ugric
- Script
- Latin
- Speakers
- ≈ 13 million
- Where
- Hungary, Romania, Slovakia
- In the game
- Common language
How to spot it
The double acute accents ő and ű exist only in Hungarian. Articles “a / az”, digraphs sz, cs, zs, gy.
A few sentences
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Minden reggel ugyanazzal a busszal megyek.
Every morning I take the same bus.
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Esik az eső, vigyél esernyőt.
It is raining, take an umbrella.
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Elfelejtettem feladni a levelet.
I forgot to post the letter.
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A kutyám nem eszik semmit.
My dog is not eating anything.
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Vásároltam friss gyümölcsöt.
I bought fresh fruit.