The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1983 (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1983-07-01 / 7. szám
July, 1983 THE EIGHTH HUNGARIAN TRIBE Page 9 out of its 53 linguistic features, 51 can be found in present-day Hungarian. The same author lists over 2,000 Sumerian words which correspond to as many Hungarian ones. Finally, he mentions the well-known fact that the native term for the Sumerian language was E-Megir; the same as Magyar in the old phonetical form. All this is decisive data so that we must conclude that Sumerian (as we call it) was merely an early Hungarian language. — As for the ancient Egypto-Hungarian linguistic relations, they too are very strong, direct and genetic. Proof of this is the native name of this language: Makari, which is another old form of the word Magyart. Besides, Egypt’s national name remained Misir to the present day, a derivation of the same root, like Masar, Magar, Makar. This author has also deciphered over a hundred short Egyptian texts in his three volumes: “Ancient History of Hungarian-speaking peoples” (P 007). Thus, ancient Egyptian must also be considered an old Hungarian language, in the light of the most recent findings. From all the above-mentioned researches, which have been carried out with untiring patience and energy, it is clear that almost every language of Eurasia is related to the Hungarian with at least several hundred identical words, while the Sanscrit, Sumerian and ancient Egyptian languages were cognate with the Hungarian. The first explanation of this unexpected conclusion was given by the talented linguist István Horváth, who declared, already a hundred years ago, that Hungarian, in B. C. times, was a widely spread language in the Ancient Orient and also the most polished one, so that many younger languages could draw a great deal from its rich vocabulary. But no one has taken this bold statement seriously in Horvát’s lifetime. However, it seems now that he has been vindicated. To-day it is indeed clear that Hungarian is a very ancient language and it occupies the central place in an extensive network of old languages. 5. The final important question to be discussed is this: what would be the most appropriate linguistic term for the collective appellation of all the languages having genetic connection with Hungarian? The most fitting would he, of course, the one which was historically used for such a purpose: the term Uri ‘Aryan’, meaning ‘Illustrious, divine (language)’, i.e. a civilized one. This term reappears almost regularly in the native names of every inter-related Hungarian, beginning with the “mother tongue” whose Sumerian name was E-Meg-Ir, the Egyptian one being Mak-Ari, and the Hungarian Mag-Ari. The best known other Aryan languages were Uri, Sub-Ari, Na-Iri and Hurri in Northern Mesopotamia; Lig-Uri, Hetr-Uri in Europa; Mund-Ari, Kol-Ari and Ma- Uri in India; Ma-Ori in New Zealand, as well as many others. Our foregoing conclusions have been recently confirmed point by point by a team of Russian linguists, namely W. Illitch-Switytch, Prof. Diakanov, A.B. Dolgopolski and others. They were successful in proving that there was a “Primordial Tongue” (Ursprache) on the Eurasian continent, to which all the other languages were affiliated with c. 650 root-words at least. They also have determined the geographic area correctly, where the first original language was spoken, namely the tract of land from India to Anatolia and from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf. Furthermore, the estimated age of the Primordial Language also corresponds to the Hungarian: it began at the end of the last glacial period, about 12,000 years ago. In addition, the Russian team had purposely included Hungarian in the group of descendants of the primeval language, because its antiquity has been ‘proven.” Thus, Hungarian and Russian linguists agree on this point with one another. In our judgement, there is only one point the Russians have missed: they failed to discover the real identity of the primordial language. Instead of calling it by its own historical name “Aryan”, they introduced the confusing “Nostratish” name first, then, discarding it, rebaptized the primeval language “Boreish”. For us, the essential fact is, that Hungarian is recognized as a language in its own right, being, as the mother of many others, perhaps the oldest cultural language of all Eurasia. Consequently, when looking for the origin of the Hungarian people, we have to focus our attention first of all upon the Ancient Near-East. (To be continued) — How to order this book: see last page — Szór and Szuba, Nagykunság Region, the Great Plain. Herdsman (csikós) on left wears the Peasants' Pantaloons, the gatya
