and there is no part of the country where the Magyar is so spoken, as not to be intelligible in every other part. The varieties are principally in confounding a and o, and é and i, and in length- ening the syllables and words. Two prize Essays, one by Horvát, and the other by Gáti, on the Dia- lects of the Hungarian, were published in 1821. The two most distinct idioms are those of Raab and Bihar. The Transylvanians, especially the Székely, have a drawling manner of pronouncing words which is very singular. They are of Tatar origin, and have preserved a greater number of their original terms.[1]
The Hungarians invariably write the baptismal
after the family name. Thus, Thaisz András
(Andrew Thaisz, the translator of the Scottish
Romances); this rule even extends to foreign
names, as in the title to these translations, Scott
Walter Románjai. Hungarian women do not
abandon their family names when they marry.
As in every other tongue of ancient date, a de-
mand for new words, accommodated to an ad-
vanced cultivation, has been felt in the Hungarian.
- ↑ Consult, for some curious particulars concerning them, En- gel's Geschichte des Ungarischen Reichs and seiner Nebeländer, Halle, 1797.
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