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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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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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basque is an isolate (no family), hungarian is part of a larger family (uralic > finno-ugric > ugric > hungarian)

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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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