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Ármin Vámbéry was a Hungarian traveler, orientalist, and Turkologist. He was the first to put forward a significant alternative origin theory. Vámbéry's first large linguistic work, entitled "Magyar és török-tatár nyelvekbeli szóegyezések" [1] and published in 1869–70, was the casus belli of the "Ugric-Turkic War" (Hungarian: Ugor-török háború), which started as a scientific ...
Gyula Germanus (6 November 1884, in Budapest – 7 November 1979, in Budapest), alias Julius Abdulkerim Germanus, was a professor of oriental studies, a Hungarian writer and Islamologist, member of the Hungarian Parliament and member of multiple Arabic academies of science, who made significant contributions to the study of the Arabic language, history of language and cultural history.
Hungarian grammar is the grammar of Hungarian, a Finno-Ugric language that is spoken mainly in Hungary and in parts of its seven neighboring countries. Hungarian is a highly agglutinative language which uses various affixes , mainly suffixes , to change the meaning of words and their grammatical function.
The library was founded in 1802 by the highly patriotic Hungarian aristocrat Count Ferenc Széchényi. Széchényi traveled the world buying Hungarian books, which he assembled and donated to the nation. In 1803, the public library was opened in Pest. Széchényi's example resulted in a nationwide movement of book donations to the library. [1]
The Hungarian Electronic Library (Hungarian: Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár) is one of the most significant text-archives of the Hungarian Web space [1] showcasing a variety of primary and secondary sources. [2] Contains thousands of full-text works in the humanities and social sciences. [1]
Hungarian orthography (Hungarian: helyesírás, lit. 'correct writing') consists of rules defining the standard written form of the Hungarian language.It includes the spelling of lexical words, proper nouns and foreign words in themselves, with suffixes, and in compounds, as well as the hyphenation of words, punctuation, abbreviations, collation (alphabetical ordering), and other information ...
The geographic distribution of Hungarian dialects [1] [2] Hungarian has ten dialects. [3] [4] These are fully mutually intelligible, and do not differ significantly from standard Hungarian except for the Csángó dialect. They are mostly distinguished by pronunciation; although there are differences in vocabulary, these are usually small and do ...
Bálint Balassi. Bálint Balassi (1554–1594) was a Renaissance lyric poet and regarded as a Hungarian in the deepest sense, the first to write the words "my sweet homeland" in reference to Hungary, a phrase which became a renowned canon of patriotism in Hungarian literature throughout the centuries that followed.