Publication

1994 - M. Cavendish, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

32,000 words, Guess

Page Count

128 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivehungary00esbe
  • ISBN-101854355880
  • ISBN-139781854355881
  • LibraryThing2534769
  • Library of Congress Control Number93045746
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC943.9
  • LCCDB906 .E83 1994

Description

In some ways, Hungary is an island. This may seem an odd description of a landlocked nation, a country with no coastline at all, but Hungary is a place unto itself. This Central European nation has one thing that no other country has -- the Hungarian language, a tongue so different from any other that it's considered a "language isolate." Or a language island, one could say. This isn't quite true in the absolute sense, since linguists say Hungarian is a member of the Finno-Urgic family of languages, and distantly related to Finnish and Estonian. But even on that branch of the language family tree, Hungarian is off on its own, a twig unto itself, so to speak -- with Finnish and Estonian being much closer to each other than to Hungarian. And geographically, of course, Finland and Estonia are nowhere near Hungary anyway. - p. 5.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cultures of the world

Other Editions

  • HungaryM. Cavendish1994-01-01

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