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3 unusual facts about Hungarian language


Belváros

Belváros means "inner city", "city centre" or "downtown" in Hungarian.

Gyula Justh

Unlike Ferenc Kossuth he proved to be understanding in the case of Croatian representatives' obstruction who convicted the Hungarian service language among the Croatian Railways.

József Fogl

Together with his older brother, Károly Fogl II, the two Fogls formed the legendary "Fogl-gate" (Fogl-gát in Hungarian), an extremely powerful and tough defending formation for more than a decade.


Aero Ae-45

Hungary was a major customer, where the aircraft was known as the Kócsag (Hungarian: "Egret").

Árpád Potápi

In 1991 he graduated from Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College of Szeged as a teacher of Hungarian language, literature, history.

Bálint Hóman

According to his point of view that is necessary to take it into consideration at the time of the analysis of the ancient Hungarian words the Sumerian and HattianHurrian literary monuments.

Buchteln

In Bavaria the Buchteln are called Rohrnudeln, in Slovenian buhteljni, in Serbian buhtle or buhtla, in Hungarian bukta, in Croatian buhtle, in Polish buchta, and in Czech buchty or buchta or buchtičky or buchtička.

Charlie Gogolak

Charles Paul Gogolak (in Hungarian: Gogolák Károly Pál, born December 29, 1944 in Rábahídvég, Hungary) is a retired American football placekicker.

Danube Bend

The Danube Bend (Hungarian Dunakanyar) is a curve of the Danube in Hungary, close to the city of Visegrád.

Flik 14

Flik 14, later Flik 14J (in Hungarian 14. repülőszázad or 14. vadászszázad) was an air company of the Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops.

Hungarian Opera Day

Hungarian Opera Day (Hungarian: A Magyar Opera Napja) is a commemoration of the birth of Hungarian composer Ferenc Erkel (2 November 1810) and the reopening of the Erkel Theatre in Budapest.

Hungarian Slovenes

In the 10th century, the western border of the Kingdom of Hungary was fixed on the river Mura, so the region between the Mura and the Rába rivers, known in Slovene as Slovenska krajina and in Hungarian as Vendvidék, inhabited by Slovenes, remained in Hungary.

Jean Alexandre Vaillant

Thus, he claimed, when Transylvania was taken over by the Hungarians in the 9th century, Romanians were the main presence in the area; he believed that the Hungarian-language name for Transylvania, Erdély, was borrowed from Romanian, and had its origins in the Latin name Jupiter (see Historical names of Transylvania).

Joseph Moskowitz

When Moskowitz appeared at a cafe in New York City in 1908, the New York Times reported that, "posters in Yiddish, Italian, Hungarian, and Roumanian (sic) announce his presence throughout the length of East Houston Street."

László Pósán

In 1990 he graduated from Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen as a teacher of Hungarian language, literature and history.

Paulician dialect

However, as a result of its three-century separation from Standart Bulgarian and its close interaction with German and Hungarian, Banat Bulgarian has adopted a number of loanwords not present in Standard Bulgarian and a Croatian-based Latin alphabet and is therefore now considered to be one of the three literary forms of Modern Bulgarian.

Peter Ujvagi

Peter Sandor Ujvagi (Hungarian Újvági Péter Sándor, 31 March 1949) is a former Hungarian-born American Democratic state representative of Ohio state in the 47th District, who represents Toledo and Lucas County.

Pro Scientia Medal

The Pro Scientia Medal was established in 1988 by NSSC, National Scientific Student Council (in Hungarian OTDT, Országos Tudományos Diákköri Tanács), Budapest.

Public transportation in Brașov

It should be noted that the administrative divisions and predominant/official languages consistently change over time; in Saxon cities and villages like Braşov, German was predominant until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Romanian and for a few decades, Hungarian, increase in use, ultimately attaining a combined 95.2% in 2011.

Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche

Jolán Földes, a Hungarian author, lived on this street in 1930, and gave its name to one of her novels: A halászó macska uccája, which is the literal translation of the name in Hungarian.

Rust, Burgenland

The settlement was first mentioned as Ceel in a 1317 deed issued by King Charles I of Hungary, its name derived from Hungarian szil for Elm, later translated into German Rüster or Rusten.

Schöner Náci

He walked around the Old Town and in particular the stretch from Michael's Gate to the river, in top hat and tails, greeting women with the words, “I kiss your hand” in German, Hungarian and Slovak.

The Sacred War

There are a number of foreign-language adaptations of this song, among them the German version Der Heilige Krieg (written by Stephan Hermlin) and the Hungarian version Fel, küzdelemre, hõs haza.

Toma Sik

The International Institute of Social History keeps a vast collection of papers from Toma Sik in several languages, such as Hebrew, Hungarian, and English.

Two Half Times in Hell

Two Half Times in Hell (Hungarian: Két félidő a pokolban), also known as The Last Goal is a 1962 Hungarian war drama film based on The Death Match.

Vera Begić

Vera has achieved the Master of Laws degree; she can communicate in fluent English and can also speak Russian, Hungarian and Italian.

William R. Hopkins

An excellent speaker, he was nicknamed by Witt as "Chautauqua Bill." He won support of Cleveland's ethnic large population, receiving praise in Hebrew, German, Hungarian, Czech, Polish and other foreign-language papers (there were roughly a half-dozen in big circulation at the time).

Zsigmond Vincze

Zsigmond Vincze (Hungarian: Vincze Zsigmond) (1 July 1874 in Zombor – 30 June 1935 in Budapest) was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer who wrote several very successful operettas.


see also

Beholder Kft.

The company's first project was a Hungarian language play-by-mail game, Land of Survivors (Hungarian name: Túlélők Földje) programmed by Miklós Tihor in Borland C.

Előre

The discontinued publication was immediately succeeded by a new Hungarian-language communist periodical called Új Előre (New Forward).

Nimród Antal

He is best known for writing and directing the Hungarian-language film Kontroll (2003), which won numerous awards, including the Award of the Youth at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Hugo (main prize) at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as a European Film Award nomination for Best Director.

Pazmanitengasse

It was named in 1867 after (the name of students of) the Pázmáneum, the Vienna Catholic seminary, later university, founded in 1623 by Cardinal Péter Pázmány, a protagonist of the Counter-Reformation and the father of modern Hungarian language.