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Old 07-01-2010, 09:29 AM   #141 (permalink)
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How many people worldwide speak hungarian?
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There are about 14.5 million native speakers, of whom 9.5–10 million live in present-day Hungary. About 2.5 million speakers live outside present-day Hungary, but in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon (1920). Of these, the largest group lives in Transylvania, the western half of present-day Romania, where there are approximately 1.4 million Hungarians. There are large, majority Hungarian territories also in Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine, but Hungarian speakers can also be found in Croatia, Austria, and Slovenia, as well as about a million people scattered in other parts of the world, for example there are more than a hundred thousand Hungarian speakers in the Hungarian American community in the United States.
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Old 07-01-2010, 01:03 PM   #142 (permalink)
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This is my nightmare scenario.

How many people worldwide speak hungarian?
marrying a hungarian and moving there is your nightmare scenario? that's an oddly specific nightmare.
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Old 07-01-2010, 01:58 PM   #143 (permalink)
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What I find fascinating is that Hungarian (along with Finnish) is so different from anything else spoken in Europe they had to invent a whole language group of their own...

Plus, it sounds hilarious.
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Old 07-01-2010, 03:02 PM   #144 (permalink)
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What I find fascinating is that Hungarian (along with Finnish) is so different from anything else spoken in Europe they had to invent a whole language group of their own...

Plus, it sounds hilarious.
haven't heard it, but I believe the Basque language is also in its own language group, but its been awhile since I read that so I may be way off.

Jib - Moving to a place where I can't speak the language. Though my nightmares tend to be specific as hell.

edit: noise, where are you from originally? And how did you meet your significant other?
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Old 07-01-2010, 03:10 PM   #145 (permalink)
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English and Spanish, I'm sad that the population of spanish-speaking people where I live isn't higher, just having that immersion would be great, but *sigh*, not that many in the midwest of the US. The only option to speak better, is to travel abroad and learn, or stay in class at college and get the most out of those four years.

If I could, I'd learn Japanese first, then try out Zulu, that sounds like a challenge
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Old 07-01-2010, 08:21 PM   #146 (permalink)
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haven't heard it, but I believe the Basque language is also in its own language group, but its been awhile since I read that so I may be way off.
basque is an isolate (no family), hungarian is part of a larger family (uralic > finno-ugric > ugric > hungarian)
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Old 07-01-2010, 10:52 PM   #147 (permalink)
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noise, where are you from originally? And how did you meet your significant other?
i'm from the US (Colorado). met her there just before moving to London for grad school. then moved to Budapest after i got my degree.

Hungarian has two living relatives - Finnish and Estonian. the three are mutually unintelligible. i've been to Estonia a few times, and can't understand a word of what they say!

does the language really sound that funny? i hear words rather than just noises so it's hard to judge.

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Sounds like Portuguese to me.
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It sounds like gibberish!
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I fluently speak English and Spanish and I know some basic Dutch and French.
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