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Curious thing: all the words sound very unusual for European languages speakers, except for "cukor", which evidently has Indo-European roots. Why is that? There is no analogue in Hungarian?
I'm just curious. Linguistics is my principal hobby, you know.

The Hungarian, or Magyar, language is unlike any of the Slavic languages surrounding Hungary. Its nearest language cousin is the Finn, however, the tribes speaking the two langauges parted company a few thousand years ago.

Present day Hungarian language also received generous infusions of Turkish words during the 16th century. As far as I know, the language was lost (more or less) for several centuries in favor of latin for official documents and whatever language the royal court spoke. The language was reconstructed by Hungarian noblemen serving in Maria Theresa'a court but, lacking any other guidance, they chose to follow latin rules of grammar.

Because hungarian is one of the oldest language in Europe, and it isn't similar to any other languages.

cukor- you can say tzukor, or in german : zukor.. (just the pronunciation)

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Not really right - because 1) Hungarian is no European language because the roots are outside from Europe and 2) it's similar to other languages, so Finnish and Estonian.
And it's never to forget that a language is a "living object" and it's always connected to other languaes. So there are a lot of loandwords. The word "cukor" for example was Arabian.

It isn't very similar to finnish. Do you know the finnish grammar? They are similar a little, but Finnish has many differences. Do you know how do you say the negative forms of the verbs.
And do you know the subjective and transitive inflection (sorry If I said wrong, I only searched the words in dictionary).

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Yes, there are big differences between Finnish and Hungarian but both languages are from the same family, the so-called finn-ugrian languages. In my opinion both languages are relatives like English and French - from the same language family but different in most of the details, in grammar and words.
But I found an interesting similarity: If a Hungarian of a Finn speaks German the accent is very similar!

Hi! Hungarian is a Finno-Ugrian language unrelated to most other languages in Europe. Greetings from Poland !

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Some years ago, on a flight from London to New York, I sat across the aisle from a couple of very attractive girls. Try as I might, I couldn't understand a word they were saying yet the cover of their passports indicated that they were from Finland. Since I am fluent in Hungarian, I thought I should understand at least some of their lingo. It didn't work, we had to use German and English to converse because neither Finn nor Hungarian worked for us.

Unfortunately, Finnish isn't similar Hungarian enough to understand each other. But, they used to be same a long time ago.

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