Hungarian Language

Why do I have Hungarian here? Well, I like strange languages, and Hungarian is certainly that. Maybe it's more that I like to show off with all the scattered words and phrases I know in weird languages... But whatever it is, Hungarian really fascinates me. It is not a Slavic language - like Russian, Polish or Bulgarian - and is not strongly related to any languages spoken in Europe, except it is a sort of "cousin" of Finnish, and Finnish is not (like many people would think) a North Germanic language like Swedish or Danish. And more surprisingly, the Magyar people, the people who first founded Hungary in about 1000 AD, originally came from Central Asia somewhere, which just shows how much different peoples moved about in the past.

Numbers

And once you know all the rest of the "umpty" and "umpty one" numbers, you can count to 99 by following the pattern.

30	Harminc	31	Harmincegy
40	Negyven	41	Negyvenegy
50	�tven	51	�tvenegy
60	Hatvan	61	Hatvanegy
70	Hetven	71	Hetvengy
80	Nyolcvan	81	Nyolcvanegy
90	Kilencven	91	Kilencvenegy

and we'll continue...

100	Sz�z
101	Sz�zegy
200	K�tsz�z

Well... You can guess the rest!

A few basic phrases

Hungarian	English	Hungarian	English
Igen.	Yes.	Nem.	No.
�dv�zlet!	Welcome!	�rvendek.	Pleased to meet you.
J� napot.	Hello.	Viszontl�t�sra.	Goodbye.
K�sz�n�m.	Thank you.	A nevem ...	My name is ...
Besz�l angolul?	Do you speak English?	Sajnos nem besz�lek magyarul.	I'm sorry, I don't speak Hungarian.
K�rem, seg�tsen.	I need help.	Eln�z�st, hol van a v�c�?	Where is the toilet, please?

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