Note * — Chapter I · THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE OF HUNGARY.
Reading edition
The language of the Hungarians, or Magyars, belongs to the Uralo-Altaic stock, and must be classified with those mixed languages which have sprung up from the amalgamation of different branches of the said race. In the case of the Hungarian language we have before us a mixture of the Finnic-Ugrian and the Turco-Tartar idioms, and the question of its fundamental basis has been constantly a matter of dispute between philologists.
Its phonetic system, as a strictly Asiatic language, being essentially different from that of the Indo-European or Aryan languages, we give here the following rules of pronunciation to be used in this book:
Vowels:Consonants:
Hungarian. English, etc.Hungarian. English, etc.
ao in hot.csch in chalk.
áa in far.czts in charts.
ee in net.gydy in how d’ you do.
éai in fail.lygl in Italian gli.
ii in pin.nygn in Italian ogni.
íee in deer.ssh in shirt.
óo in no.szs in saint.
öeu in French meuble. tyty in hit you (tu in tune)
öeu in French deux.
uu in full.zss in pleasure.
úoo in too.
üu in French juste.
üu in French dur.