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  Hungarian language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hungarian is generally believed to be a member of the Ugric languages, a sub-group of the Finno-Ugric language family, which in turn is a branch of the Uralic languages.
Hungarian is the official language of Hungary, and thus an official language of the EU.
Hungarian is officially recognized as a minority or regional language in Austria, Croatia and Slovakia.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hungarian_language.htm   (2489 words)

  
 Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Therefore, Hungarian politics and culture of the interwar period were saturated with irredentism and revisionism (the restoration of 19th century "greater Hungary" by whatever means necessary).
This led to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and an announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact which were met with a massive military intervention by the Soviet Union.
Hungarian sovereign debt was upgraded in 2000 to the second-highest rating among all the Central European transition economies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hungary   (2138 words)

  
 Hungarian language, alphabet and pronunciation
Hungarian is a highly inflected language in which nouns can have up to 238 possible forms.
The earliest Hungarian literature, dating from the 12th century, was in Latin.
Hungarian literature flourished during the 18th and 19th centuries.
www.omniglot.com /writing/hungarian.htm   (240 words)

  
 Hungarian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hungarian is a member of the Ugric languages, a sub-group of the Finno-Ugric language family, which in turn is a branch of the Uralic languages.
The substantive verb "to be" in Hungarian is lenni.
Hungarian has often been claimed to be related to Hunnish, since Hungarian legends and histories show close ties between the two peoples.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hungarian_language   (3870 words)

  
 UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
Hungarian, or Magyar, as it is called in Hungarian, is spoken by 10.5 million people in Hungary, or 98 percent of the population.
Hungarian is a member of the Ugric subfamily of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic (or Uralic-Yukaghir) family of languages.
Hungarian is the only officially sanctioned language for education and government administration; the languages of the various minority groups are restricted to use at home and among co-speakers.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=31   (975 words)

  
 Hungarian Translation - Translate Hungarian Language Translator
Hungarian is generally believed to a member of the Ugric languages, a sub-group of the Finno-Ugric languages, which are a branch of the Uralic languages.
Hungarian language has been claimed to be closely related to Hunnish, as Hungarian legends and histories show the close ties between the two peoples, and both the Huns and the modern day Hunnish people (Sz kely) lived in Hungary.
Hungarian distinguishes between long and short vowels, where the long vowels are written with accents, and between long consonants and short consonants, where the long consonants are written double.
www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/hungarian.shtml   (1574 words)

  
 (ootips) Hungarian Notation - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The advantage of Hungarian notation is a reminder of the type of a variable.
Hungarian notation (or a variation of this) has its place in C++ when referring to data that really DOES have a particular type, by its very nature.
Hungarian notation is, when all is said and done, a commenting technique.
ootips.org /hungarian-notation.html   (671 words)

  
 LLRX -- Introduction to Hungarian Law Research
Hungarian Parliament (National Assembly) is a legislative body whose range of law-making activity is extensive and whose structure is unicameral consisting of 386 members.
Every Hungarian citizen at the age of 18 and over has the right to vote, and is at the same time eligible to be a candidate for elective office.
The Library of the Hungarian Parliament is the national special library and information center of legal literature.
www.llrx.com /features/hungarian.htm   (1803 words)

  
 Hungarian Citizenship
(2) The Hungarian citizenship of the child of a non-Hungarian citizen parent shall derive with retroactive effect to the date of birth, if the other parent is a Hungarian citizen, on the basis of an acknowledgement of paternity of full force, subsequent marriage, or the establishment by a judge of fatherhood or motherhood.
Hungarian citizenship may not be revoked after ten years from the date it was awarded.
Hungarian citizenship may be verified by a valid personal identity card, a valid Hungarian passport or by a certificate of citizenship.
www.huembwas.org /Consular/HunCit.htm   (3268 words)

  
 Overview of the Hungarian Language to Help You Learn Hungarian
Hungarian or Magyar (pronounced "Mawdyar") is the mother tongue of the ten million inhabitants of Hungary, as well as another four million people in neighboring countries-- mostly Romanian Transylvania to the East, Slovakia to the North, and Croatia and Yugoslavia to the South.
Hungarian is an Ugric language of the Finno-Ugric subgroup of the Uralic language family.
English words of Hungarian origin include goulash (a stew made with beef or veal), paprika (a seasoning made from sweet red peppers), coach (named after the village of Kocs, where carriages were invented and first used), and saber (a cavalry sword).
www.transparent.com /languagepages/hungarian/overview.htm   (743 words)

  
 Hungarian Language Course
Magyar (pronounced /Mawdyar/), as the Hungarians call their language, is spoken by the approximately 10.3 million inhabitants of Hungary, as well as another 4 million people in neighboring countries and a million others scattered around the world.
Hungarian is not at all related to the Indo-European languages which surround it, and is very different both in vocabulary and in grammar.
Hungarian is an agglutinative language, meaning that it relies heavily on suffixes and prefixes.
www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/a/d/adr10/hungarian.html   (344 words)

  
 Hungarian Collections: Overviews of the Collections (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
The Hungarian collection is well developed in all areas, and its strength is maintained through the systematic purchasing of books from Hungary, as well as the automatic exchange of material with the National Széchényi Library, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and other major Hungarian educational and cultural institutions.
Although LC possesses no rare Corvinas (books that formed the Library of Hungarian King Matthias in the late 15th century that were dispersed throughout the world after the Turkish conquest of Hungary in the 16th century), it does have facsimiles and catalog reconstructions of that famous collection.
In the Center are to be found 36 10-inch disks of Hungarian folk music and a 7-inch reel tape of Hungarian folk music originally recorded on cylinders by Béla Bartók during the 1910s and duplicated by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
www.loc.gov /rr/european/coll/hung.html   (2125 words)

  
 TRANSYLVANIA IS HUNGARIAN!
This was a direct result of the Hungarian concept of freedom, as well as the respect toward the freedom of others, which permeated the entire Hungarian state-concept, and enabled the Hungarians to rule the Carpathian Basin successfully for a thousand years.
Even after 1711, when Hungarian political independence was completely lost to Habsburg oppression, Hungarian culture in Transylvania not only kept in step with the cultural evolution of the rest of the country, but in many instances it became the guiding force of spiritual and cultural resistance.
Hungarians are subject to constant discrimination, Hungarian signs are painted over or not allowed at all, intimidation by Gheorghe Funar is carried out against Hungarians on a daily basis aimed at driving out all Hungarians from this ancient Magyar land.
www.angelfire.com /nm/hun   (2356 words)

  
 BBC Education - Languages
Hungarian is part of the Ugrian subgroup of Uralic languages, and so is not part of the Indo-European family tree.
Hungarian uses the Latin alphabet, with diacritics on vowels, as in á, é, í, ó, ú, ö, ü, ő, ű.
The first recorded Hungarian words are personal and place names quoted in foreign sources, including Arabic, Greek and Byzantine, from the 10th century.
www.bbc.co.uk /languages/european_languages/languages/hungarian.shtml   (171 words)

  
 Hungarian Names 101
The Hungarian crown passed by marriage to the Neapolitan branch of the House of Anjou, which strengthened relations between Hungary and its Italian neighbors.
Since most Hungarian official documents were written in Latin, records of the 14th to 17th century frequently include names written in standard European order, even when the name elements themselves were Hungarian.
Most of our records of Hungarian feminine given names come from the 16th century, and are combined with bynames in the same general patterns of construction as masculine names.
www.geocities.com /Athens/1336/magyarnames101.html   (3214 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Hungarian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hungarian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of this fascinating language.
Hungarian is the most important extant member of the Ugric sub-branch of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Ural-Altaic family, and as such, it deserves to have more resources like this book to encourage its study and scholarship.
Hungarian is notable for another feature common along Uralic languages like Turkish known as "vowel harmony," wherein vowels in a word are similar and require similar positions of the tongue to pronounce.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415226120?v=glance   (1278 words)

  
 Introduction to the Hungarian language
Hungarian is a very nice language, so it's worth learning it, even if it is very hard to do.
The ancient Hungarian language is expected to be between the Sumerian dialects EME-KU and EME-SAL.
The Hungarian language is "additive" which means that we meld some letters to the end of the word.
impulzus.sch.bme.hu /info/magyar.shtml   (1510 words)

  
 Hungarian cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The traditional Hungarian dishes abound in piquant flavors and aromas.
Flavours of Hungarian dishes are based on centuries old traditions in spicing and preparation methods.
In the autumn, a fascinating view is the strings of red paprika (unground red pepper) hung on the white walls of the houses in the neighbourhood of Kalocsa, a town along the Danube.
www.fsz.bme.hu /hungary/cuisine/cuisine.html   (113 words)

  
 Hungarian Airforce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hungarian pilots has the most flight time in the '80s which exceeded the 100 hours a year.
Similarly to other airforces Hungarian Airforce also has special forces which are trained to find and rescue the crew and the passengers of the crashed military or commercial aircrafts.
Similarly to other former Warsaw Pact countries the Hungarian Airforce is also based on the MiG-21 aircrafts which were excellent fighters in their time but they became quite old fashioned by now.
mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu /Data/Winx/afes/hungarian.html   (756 words)

  
 Study Abroad Hungarian
Hungarian Basic Through advanced: The American Hungarian Language Center is a non-profit organization, established in 2001 to facilitate learning the Hungarian language in the United States.
It is supported by the American Hungarian Foundation, founded in 1954, which is the only center in the United States of its type, devoted to furthering the understanding and appreciation of the Hungarian cultural and historical heritage.
Hungarian Language and Culture: The Debrecen Summer School (Debreceni Nyari Egyetem) teaching Hungarian as a foreign language and Hungarian culture since 1927 is the oldest institution of its kind, and has grown the biggest Hungarian language school in Hungary.
www.studyabroad.com /simplehtml/languages/hungarian.html   (1283 words)

  
 Rob Earhart's WebLog : Hungarian
So last weekend, my wife mentioned a study in which someone noticed that people can read words pretty well even when the letters are scrambled, as long as the first and last letters are unaltered, and you have some context to go on--so, you suohld be albe to raed tihs ptrety eislay.
I think this explains a lot about Hungarian, where the exact ordering of the letters matters quite a bit, and the names don't match pre-existing words in the reader's brain.
The reader has to actually slow down and pay attention to all of the letters; the mental mechanism most people seem to have, which is capable of decoding scrambled words given just a few clues, doesn't work.
blogs.msdn.com /earhart/archive/2005/01/05/346949.aspx   (917 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hungarian Catholics in America
Indeed the Hungarians are in the minority (or perhaps a bare majority) when contrasted with all the others combined; but they outnumber any one of the other races under the Hungarian Crown.
But it cannot be said that a desire to emigrate to other lands is natural to the real Hungarian, for his country is not in the least overcrowded and its natural resources are sufficient to afford a decent livelihood for all its children.
In 1907 the Hungarian National Federation (Amerikai Magyar Szövetség), an organization embracing all Magyars of whatsoever creed, was founded with great enthusiasm in Cleveland, its object being to care for the material interests and welfare of Hungarians in America.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07545b.htm   (2036 words)

  
 Buggin' My Life Away : Hungarian Notation
That’s something of a shame, because Simonyi-style Hungarian Notation was the basis leading a certain Excel developer to devise such function names as CleanPots and FreePot (a POT being a “piece ‘o’ text”).
This is pretty close to the pure Simonyi hungarian (although the Klunder memo isn't clear if the prefix represents the type or the usage of a variable (consider a char * that's used as an array of characters - is it a sz or is it an rgch?).
Systems hungarian (also known as Ludwig hungarian) is the hungarian that the User team (led by Scott Ludwig) in Windows adopted for Windows 3.1.
blogs.msdn.com /rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/14/73108.aspx   (1433 words)

  
 GeoNative - Hungarian minorities - Magyar
The hungarians of Austria live in Burgenland region, where there is also a croat minority.
The most popular Hungarian name for Burgenland, the easternmost and also youngest province of Austria, used by the Hungarians of that region is Õrvidék (`border-guard region').
Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin (Karoly Kocsis and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi) at http://www.net.hu/corvinus/hmcb/
www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/magyar.html   (790 words)

  
 Hungarian Collections
The exact size of the Hungarian holdings is not known, since, like other country/language holdings, they have no separate catalogue and are dispersed within the rest of the collections.
Most Hungarian authors are represented by their standard collected edition and many of the first edition of their single works.
From the 1950s, however, Hungarian publications of research value in the humanities and social sciences and the history of sciences have been received on a broad scale through purchase and exchanges with principal Hungarian libraries.
www.bl.uk /collections/easteuropean/hungarian.html   (1175 words)

  
 Why Hungarian
This groundbreaking enterprise in the teaching of Hungarian as a foreign language remains unique, being the only one so far that covers all levels of language learners from beginner to advanced; and with the publication of this pioneering series was the first in Hungary that applied successful language teaching principles and methodologies.
Hungarian language teaching will be supplemented with lectures on hungarology, Central European economics, finances, communication and law.
The classes cover Hungarian literature, art, history, linguistics, economy, geography and music (2 hours every day) and are conducted by the professional staff of our university; our guest lecturers are renowned experts in their field.
www.hi.is /~maurizio/fiu/newscholarship.htm   (3714 words)

  
 Hungarian Language Lessons - Puzzles, Quizzes, Sound Files
Hungarian is spoken by only 15 million people worldwide.
It is hard to learn magyar outside of Hungary, since it is almost impossible to find local source, classes or tutors to help.
Sample sentences are related to Hungarian history, culture, tourism or everyday life.
www.hungarotips.com /hungarian   (387 words)

  
 Learn How To Speak - Hungarian
The Hungarian Basic Course is written to provide students with the basic structure of spoken language and a vocabulary to make limited practical use of both the spoken and written language while in Hungary.
The course is intended to be colloquial, and emphasis is placed on idiomatic use and proper pronunciation of the spoken language.
Hungarian is not at all related to the Indo- European languages which surround it, and is very different both in vocabulary and in grammar.
www.learn-how-to-speak-hungarian.com   (905 words)

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