The most chinky language of Europe?

**~~Rethel~~** · 10-29-2020, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Blondie

The hungarian language is the most indo-europeanized uralic language by far, 40% of hungarian vocabulary has IE origin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungar...age#Vocabulary
Do you know what's is the most understandable foreign language for a native hungarian speaker who don't even speak foreign languages? Not the mansy/khanty, not the finnish and not turkish but the slovak language followed by german. You can recognise many word without any knowledge.

Possible.
But the souding is still noticeably different.

So, to make it easier, Hungarians should absorbed just slovak.
It would have a lot much more sense, as Ugrofinians are just a tiny, tiny element of whole population.

**~~Rethel~~** · 11-01-2020, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by Rethel

Find a difference between people and speech. I don't see any.

It was Finchurian.
Now we have Hungolian.
And also try to find a difference.
As for me, both factors fit perfectly.

**Östsvensk** · 11-01-2020, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by Stearsolina

I am suprised how similar Finnish sounds to Hungarian. You can definitely hear both are Uralic languages, despite they separated extremely long time ago.
To me Finnish sound like Hungarian (pitch, intonation, accent) with completely foreign vocabulary.

Finnish is considered by some to resemble Icelandic in intonation. Furthermore, Finland-Swedish dialects are often thought of by mainland Swedish-speakers to sound like Swedish spoken with a Finnish accent. As far as I know, linguists consider Finland-Swedish closer to the Old Nordic language than mainland Swedish dialects that are much more influenced by German.