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The Hungarian language

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1 The Hungarian language

2 Its origin Member of the Finno-Ugric language family The official language of Hungary, but it is also spoken in Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia Spoken by 16 million people

3 About the language ... Hungarian is one of the most difficult languages in the world. It is completely unique, no other language is similar to the Hungarian language. Some words have been taken over from the following languages: Latin, German, French, Italian, and English.

4 Those who do not know this language consider it strange and unusual.
Those who know it think it is interesting. Those who speak and understand Hungarian consider it beautiful.

5 Famous people’s thoughts on the Hungarian language
Jacob Grimm: ’The Hungarian language is logical, has a perfect structure and surpasses every other language.’ George Bernard Shaw: ’I can say with confidence that my literary work would have been far more precious if my first language had been Hungarian.’

6 Famous Hungarians There have been more than 10 Hungarian Nobel Prize winners so far, e.g. Kertész Imre, Szent-Györgyi Albert, Winger Jenő, Fülöp Lénárd , or Bárány Róbert Scientists and inventors: Goldmark Péter Károly-colour television, Teller Ede-hydrogen bomb, Bíró László-ballpoint pen, Irinyi János-noiseless match, Kemény János György-BASIC programming language, Puskás Tivadar-telephone exchange


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