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Languages

Languages. 1. What is the official language in your country?. The official language of our country is Hungarian. 2. Which other languages have influenced your language?.

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  1. Languages

  2. 1. What is the official language in your country? The official language of our country is Hungarian.

  3. 2. Which other languages have influenced your language? In the past mainly Slavic, German, Latin and Turkic languages influenced the Hungarian language. We borrowed many words from these languages. Nowadays we also adopt foreign words, mainly from English.

  4. 3. Your national language belongs to which family of languages? Hungarian is a Uralic language. It belongs to Finno-Ugric branch. It is the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe.

  5. 4. Which foreign languages can pupils study at your school? We can study English at my school.

  6. 5. Do you have funny proverbs? Ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogátDo not look at the tooth of a gift horse. You shouldn’t look a girt horsein the mouth. Bagoly mondja verébnek, hogy nagyfejű.The owl tells the sparrow that her head is big. Éhes disznó makkal álmodikA hungry pig dreams of acorns Maga alatt vágja a fát.He cuts the tree under himself. Kecskére bízza a káposztátHe trusts the goat with the cabbage. Sok lúd disznót győz.Many geese overpower a pig. Sokat akar a szarka, de nem bírja a farkaThe magpie wants too much, but her tail is unable to carry her. (She overestimates her power/capacity/strength. Sötétben minden tehén fekete.All cows are black in the dark.

  7. 6. Which dialects do people speak in your country? Geographical distribution? nyugat-dunántúli =West Transdanubian közép-dunántúli–kisalföldi =CentralTransdanubian dél-dunántúli =South Transdanubian dél-alföldi =South Alföld palóc nyelvjárási régió=Northwest(Palóc) Tisza–Körös=Tisa-Körös északkeleti =Northeast mezőségi székely (in Romania) moldvai (in Romania) Hungarian has several dialects but they are not so different as to make understanding difficult. The only such example may be the dialect of the Csángós of Romania.That dialect represents an old and archaic version of our language. Hungarian literary language is based on the Northeastern dialect In this image you can see the main dialects of Hungarian language

  8. 7. Name the most important writers/poets in your country? József Attila Petőfi Sándor Arany János Kölcsey Ferenc

  9. 7. Name the most important writers/poets in your country? Jókai Mór Gárdonyi Géza Molnár Ferenc

  10. 8. Which is your favourite word? ALMA (APPLE), CIPŐ(SHOES), FOCI(FOOTBALL), CSOKI(CHOCOLATE), TIGRIS(TIGER), CSERESZNYE(CHERRY), GYÖNGY(PEARL)

  11. 9. What about immigrants? Which languages do they speak? Do they stick to their own languages? What about immigrants?Which languages do they speak?Do they stick to their own languages? Hungary is not a significant destination of immigrants in Europe.Two-thirds of immigrants( who mostly come from Ukraine and Serbia,) speak Hungarian as their mother tongue. 8 biggest immigration groups living in Hungary in 2010 1. Ukrainian 18,932 2. Chinese 14,345 3. Serbian 12,594 4. Russian 5489 5.Vietnamese 3,790 6. American 3,469 7. Turkish 1,900 8. Iranian 1,767 At the beginning of 2010 2513 African citizens were living in Hungary. Although most of children in immigrants families a are bilingual, they study in Hungarian public schools.

  12. 10. Which special letters/accents do you have in your language? ---The accents: Á É Í Ó Ö Ő Ú Ű ----diagraphs: CS DZ DZS GY LY NY TY SZ ZS

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