European Centre for Modern Languages
Centre Europeén pour les Langues Vivantes
"The Magyar
language stands afar off and alone.
The study of other tongues will be found of exceedingly little use towards
its right understanding. It is moulded in a form essentially its own,
and its construction and composition may safely be referred to an epoch
when most of the living tongues of Europe either had no existence, or
no influence on the Hungarian region."
/ John Bowring, 1830, Poetry of the Magyar, Preface, p.vi /
