Szittyakürt, 1978 (17. évfolyam, 1-9. szám)

1978-09-01 / 9. szám

JUNE 1978 FIGHTER Page 5 The Language of the Magyars LANGUAGE (Encyclopedia Britannica IX. Ed. Vol. XII, Pge. 375. The Magyar “Hungarian Language” by E. D. Butler, British Museum.): “The Magyar far surpasses every Teutonic, Slavonic, Italic, and other Indo-European or Aryan language in the wealth of its verbal forma­tions, and also in the power of harmonizing and assimilating the determinatives to the roots. Logical in its derivatives and in its gram­matical structure, the Magyar language is, moreover, copious in idiomatic expressions, rich in its store of words, and almost musical in its harmonious intonation. It is, therefore, admirably adapted for both literary and rhetorical pur­poses. The Romish ecclesiastics who settled in Hungary during the 11th century, and who found their way into the chief offices of the state, were mainly instrumental in establishing Latin as the predo­minant language of the court, the higher schools, and public worship, and of eventually introducing it into the administration. Having thus become the tongue of the educated and privileged classes, Latin con­tinued to monopolize the chief fields of literature until the revival of the native language at the close of the 18th century.” Those who can read Hungarian will enjoy reading a most recent publication by Dr. Elmer Novotny Sumerian Language — Magyar Language and discover how the An­cient Sumerian writing (cuneiform) resembles the Ancient Magyar-Szé­kely writing (rovás) still found in T ransylvania! POPULAR HISTORICAL NOTES NÉPSZERŰ TÖRTÉNELMI FÜZETEK No. 4. RENÉ LABAT Szám SZÉKELY ROVXSJELEX No. 13 síi -T H­DINGIR D u 381 UD, E E ) 230 P GAG G 589 "< 0 HA H * 480 T IS, IL I 461 KI.KE K 00 330 KJ* .N LU L N 144 i>~ DUMU M > 383 vj A PI P 483 E T5rT R1 R 11 381 *T UD, TAM, TU T 562 UH U 03 393 UTU 0 * 9 Dr. NOVOTNY ELEMÉR SUI! NYELV - MAGYAR UYELU Hecho el deposito que establece la Ley 11.723 LIBRO DE EDICION ARGENTINA Printed in Argentina Se terminó de imprimir el dia 28 de febrero de 1978 en la Imprenta BEU — Borchardt y Cía. S.R.L.— Moreno 369 - Buenos Aires - Argentina György Ustor of Pozsony wrote to Professor S. Faisi in Tokyo, Japan on January 2, 1977 (Északi Vártán, No. 75, Feb. 1977, pg. 13, Södertalie, Sweden) that the ancient home of the Magyars always was in the Car­pathian Basin which was properly and scientifically proven by Dr. Sándor Nagy, Adorján Magyar and later the writers Zsigmond Móricz and Pál Szabó wrote about it. But the Mother Church impatiently exterminated for a 1,000 years all awarness of origin and thus self respect in the Hungarian people. The Archaeological findings of Professor Vlassa at Tatárlak, and even earlier at the end of the XIXth century the clay tablets found by Zsófia Torma put Magyar writing a millenia before those of Mesopo­tamia or of Egypt. Recently at the Sorbonne in Paris, linguists examined all known living and dead languages and with the aid of electronic computers they found the percentages of the still existing ethymons. A few of those examined were: English —4% Latin —5% Old Turk-Turkmén — 26% Hebrew —5% Pacific Ocean Languages —7% Eastern I ndian- Munda- Khol — 9 % Tibetian, Sanskrit—12% Magyar-Hungarian — 68 % (Krónika, 4th year, No. 2, Feb. 1978, pg.28) These facts on the Magyar language and writing were not and still are not looked upon with favour by the pre-war and post-war governments in Hungary. So what do we expect from the other peoples of the world in general? MÉN-APÓ THEATER MAROS DANCE GROUP "innraTr o'o s Tinrrinrinnnnnr The Hungarians of the US. and Canada received the Szekler folk dancers and folk artists during the month of April and May, with respect and warmth. They came from the historical town of Maros­­vásárhely, Transylvania —now un­der temporary Rumanian occupa­tion and brought with them a few still remaining fruits from the Szeklers tree of Culture to be shared with the Hungarian minorities in North-America. We enjoyed them, housed them, fed them and we applauded them. They felt and knew that they were received by the hospitality of Magyar brothers and sisters living in this part of the Western World. Although the Rumanian govern­ment sent them —they brought Ma­gyar message in their repertoir of art. As they left here and returned to Magyar Transylvania we send our message after them: Mr. Prime Minister Ceausescu! To be sure you want to remember that we were not and will not be blinded by the token “cultural exchange” programs sent by the “Friendly Socialist Republic of Romania.” The plight of the Hungarians in Transylvania cannot be silenced and the fact of cultural oppression cannot be diminished by the occasional appearance of a dance group. The Hungarian Schools and cultural centers must be opened up again! Hungarian cultural life must be allowed to flourish and develope again! The Rumanian chauvinistic impatience must cease and the human rights of every single Hun­garian native of Transylvania must be guaranteed! W'W wwwwwww ffli HuN<rMUA nmtMfiwm Mommínt iAQ,petomoM£M% poAtofrrMftyi, #♦# AAAAAAAAAAAAAA TRANSYLVANIAN WORLD FEDERATION Crdétyi Világszövetség PROCLAMATION TO THE HUNGARIAN PEOPLE, AND THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT The Rumanian Socialist Republic conducts an undeclared racial war against the Hungarian people.Relying on fascist methods,violating the right of self determination of peoples ,it oppresses and annihilates the Hungarian population living in Moldavia, as well as the indigenous Hungarian population of Transylvania,which was unjustly annexed by Rumania . The Rumanian Socialist Republic organizes an expensive,world-wide propaganda campaign in order to falsify Transylvanian history, to slander the Hungarian people and to promote the so called daco­­roman theory. This theory, contrary to factual evidence , serves fascist purposes , and poisons the peaceful coexistence of diffe rent peoples . The Rumanian Socialist Republic's attitude seriously threatens the existence of the Hungarian people. In view of this, the Hunga rian organizations united in the Transylvanian World Federation, call on the Hungarian people, and primarily on the youth organiza tions in Hungary, to demand - together with the Hungarian organi^ zations united in the Transylvanian World Federation - that the Hungarian government defend the national interests of the Hunga rians in Transylvania, on the basis of the principle of equality between peoples, the principle most frequently quoted by the so cialist countries . We call on the Hungarian government to withdraw from the Hunga rian-Rumanian friendship treaty, because of the hostile attitude against the Hungarian people demonstrated by the Rumanian Socia list Republic, and to refuse all cooperation with Rumania within the framework of the Warsaw Pact . The Executive Committee of the Transylvanian World Federation : Ferenc Adorján Dr. Zoltán Béky Ferenc Cs. Tolvaly Ft. Tibor Dömötör Dr. János Nádas Dr. Albert Wass István Zolcsäk CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY THE TRUTH WILL STAND The California Human Rights Committee For Hungarians and Other Minorities in Romania which is based in Los Angeles, Ca. with the leadership of Gyula Szabó and John Patay wish to call attention to the fact that the Rumanians will resort to any extreme falsification of historical facts in order to maintain their “mini-colonial” hold over the territory of Transylvania. However, countless scholarly works and sour­ces compiled by objective and diligent historians and scientists had preserved the truth in numerous languages. The following is such an excerpt from a French publication: « ORH1S -> INTRODUCTION AUX ÉTUDKS DE GÉOGRAPHIE Collection diriger par Ámoré CHOLLEY. Proíe&srur a la Sorbonne L’EIJROPE CENTRALE par Pierre GEORGE Prolrsseur á la Sorbonne et a I'Institut d'Etudes fjohltques de V Uniret süt de Poris et Jean TRICART Profésseur á la Faeulté des Ltttres et á I'Institut d'Etudes polilttjues de l'Universitf de Strasbourg Tome Premier GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE ET HU MAINE PRESSES UNI VERS IT A IRES DE FRANCE 108, Boulevard Saipt-Germain. PARIS 1954 THE HISTORICAL-PACTS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE ROMANIAN NATION CENTRAL EUROPE by Pierre George Professor of the Sorbonne and of the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Paris and by Jean Tricart Professor of Literature at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Strasbourg Volume I. Physical and Cultural Geography Presses Universitaires de France 108. Boulevard Saint-Germain Paris, 1954. The Development of Nations Pages 239 and 240. The origin of the Roumanian nation has remained most obscure even until now. The so-called theory of continuity that would have the Roumanians to be the descendants of the romanized Dacians, is presently discarded. The hiatus of a thousand years between the abandonment of Transylvania by the Romans and the existence of documents confirming the presence of Roumanians (called Vlachs) in this country (1 222, Charter of Fogaras) constitutes a major difficulty for the acceptance of this. On the contrary, the Archives of the Balkans and linguistic studies enable us to follow the slow movement of the pastoral Vlach peoples from the Macedonian and Albanian areas to the Plains of the Danube between the 10th and 14th centuries. The Roumanians have settled in the Carpathian mountains and in Transylvania amongst Slavs and Hungarian peoples, who have probably assimilated the survivors of the Dacians and Gepides badly mangled by successive invasions between the 3rd and 10th centuries. Transylvania, a land of refuge already showed the characteristics of a mosaic of nationalities, the elements of whom are not easy to define, such as the Szekelys (Siculi), who are considered by some authors as the descendants of the Huns, and by others as the heirs of Hungarian pioneers. German settlements (Saxons) are in existence since the 12th century, before the presence of Roumanians is noted in written documents. The language and civilisation of the Roumanians have evolved in the Balkans and developed in contact with Albanian and Slav populations, had been subjected to latin influence through Illyria, and Greek through Byzance. The Vlachs, mountain shepherds, learned the methods of sedentary culture from the Slavs and have progressively extended their grazing forays to the Plains of the Danube and to the Carpathians, where they mixed with peoples of diverse ethnic origin previously settled. For a long period of time they have preserved their sheepherding traditions amongst the groups of peasants of the valleys and basins. The Roumanian nation became the most synthetic of nations of Central Europe. She rules in Transylvania the Hungarian nation, who can claim prior settlement there as soon as the fragile geopolitical theory of daco-roumanian continuity is discarded.

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