Is Hungarian One Of The Oldest Languages?

Submitted by Magasztos on Tue, 2024-05-14 17:02

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By SKopp - Flags of the World – HungaryMSZ 1361:2009 – A nemzeti zászló és lobogó követelményei / Requirements for national flag and waving(2009). "Megújult a zászló szabvány" (PDF). Magyar Textiltechnika 62 (5): 203–207. Budapest, Hungary: Textilipari Műszaki és Tudományos Egyesület. ISSN 2060-453X. Archived from the original on 2015-08-12., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=343602

Hungary has its share of conspiracy theories just like everyone else. Here is a fun "food for thought" about the Hungarian Language.

"According to mainstream linguistic theory and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian language belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. However, some expound alternative theories on Hungarian’s linguistic origins. One of them suggests that Hungarian is the ultimate proto-language. Its basis is that the Bible is full of supposedly Hungarian names and geographic locations. These theorists claim that today’s Hungarian originated “before the history of language”, and every language currently spoken dervies from this progenitor language, the Scythian Hungarian, or Arameus (örömös) language. István Práczi even claims in his book (Ősnyelv-e a magyar) that the Hungarian language dates back to long before Roman and Greek culture, meaning that Jewish-Roman-Greek culture grew out of and fed from Hungarian-Scythian culture, and not the other way around. He also wrote that “the whole of language culture started with Hungarian.”

According to some theorists, evidence of ancient Hungarian writings and Scythian-Hungarian writing, which already existed 20,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age, were destroyed

because it proves the ancient origin of the Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin and it is their letter of ownership to this region. It is for this reason that the cultural genocide began forcefully in the 10th and 11th centuries and has since continued. The Codices with runic writing and the carved runic sticks were burned; the Táltos [pagan shamans] were killed or incarcerated. Beginning with King St. Stephen, all the kings – with the exception of King Matthias in the 15th century – accepted the orders of the Roman Pope to destroy the so-called pagan culture.

According to another theory, Hungarian is one of the oldest languages and identical to Sumerian, as our suffixes, vowels, and consonants are similar to the 5000-year-old Sumerian ones. Supposedly, in the Hungarian language, 63 out of 100 words are of Sumerian origin, while 12 are Akkadian. These ‘theorists’ claim that the majority of Hungarian names can be understood with the help of the Sumerian dictionary as well, and argue that Hungarian vowels and consonants are completely identical to their Sumerian equivalents.