h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Seems as if the Sinhalese language is really hard to learn...And what did you say, in which country is it spoken and written ?

I think you're right: You understand the language the best you were brought up with. And then there are the lucky ones who are brought up with two languages..

Lena

Sinhalese is from Sri Lanka. I have a friend who is a Tamil, bilingual in Sinhala and Tamil.

Hi Possum !

Sri Lanka ...ah, yes, now I know. Eh..but Tamil ?

Lena

Hi!

Sri Lanka is sort of divided between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The Tamils speak a Dravidian language, whereas Sinhala is related to Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages...

So there's constant civil war on Sri Lanka between the Tamils and the Sinhalese...my friend is worried because the Tamil Tigers, the Tamil revolutionary group, are recruiting new members from overseas - and he's worried he might end up fighting for them in Sri Lanka!

Hi !

That really is bad - because..war is always bad ! I didn't know that there was a civil war going on. Well, I'm not that good informed about that part of the world. But if you want to do so please tell me more about it.

Lena

You are right. Hungarian language is not related to Indo-European languages. The only other language it's related to is Finnish. Sometimes, it's called Ugro-Finnish language even though they share only few words. And, yes, Hungarians are descendants of Huns. If they call themselves Magyars, it doesn't mean they are not Huns. French call Germany Allemagne, after Frankish tribe which was founding tribe of German nation, and Germans call themselves Deutschs, but they are still Germans, aren't they?

Just saying TTFN.

For the time being?

The Hun tribes lived in eastern europe after their legendary leader Attila or Atilla's died.
The Hun society continued to live in those areas but they had lost their characteristic Turkish properties like their religions....
So they lost their own nationality like afro-americans.
I mean Hungary comes from Hun-gary!

What i told is really the fact,i learned all while preparing my final project in university last week...
Also because of being a Turk i am interested in his life.

It comes from the word Onogur, which means "ten arrows". Magyars were one of ten tribes which lived near the Dneiper and Don rivers in the ninth century. Traditionally, the Magyars came from an area between the Volga and the Ural mountains. As far as I know there is just a tiny percentage of the original Hun bloodline living in the Hungary-Transylvania region. It wasn't until I saw the A&E biography on the Scourge of God when I found out that Vlad the Impaler was supposedly of Hun heritage, supposedly. I just completed a movie review of "Attila" the hunk excuse me Hun for a college history course. Anyways I find such historical things interesting. Attila sure got enough publicity in January 2001. What was it, the anniversary of Hungary's founding or something?

oh, while on topic, are there any Ernie Kovacs fans out there??

I've tried learning Hungarian. It is a bit difficult, but I have remembered some words. Diak vagyok, macska, szia, hogy van, koszonom, szeretlek........

1. There's a legend: Nimrod had two sons, Hunor-> huns, and Magor-> magyars(hungarians);
2.Attila and Hunor are still hungarian names;
3. huns, hungarians had the same battle tactic, the bowing back on horseback
4. the center of the hunnic empire was the Carpatian basin
5. all of the hungarian cronics tells, that Attila is the first king of hungarians
6. Attila was the scorge of God, and after the hungarians came back to europe they called themselves also 'the scorge of God'

You can say whatever you want, but huns and hungarians are the same nation and that's right