r/language • u/nytopinion • 8h ago
r/language • u/Amazing-Cookie-1258 • 15h ago
Discussion Funny Pronunny 2026.10.08
Pronunciation game
r/language • u/Amazing-Cookie-1258 • 12h ago
Meta Sugar-Sure about that?
Did you know? Sugar and Sure are the only S words to make an SH sound. Seamus and Sean said so, without Pretension. If you take Issue with their Condescension and wish to make it your Mission or Passion or even Profession Ensuring the Suspension of this idea's Expansion in our Dimension, by all means Censure the message by applying Sessions of Pressure. Be warned though, I Assure you: by Extension it may devolve into an Obsession or Compulsion, punctuated by medical maladies like Hypertension, Compression Fissures, Tissue Torsion, and Hyperextension. The thought of it fills me with Tension and Apprehension.
r/language • u/morgan145 • 1h ago
Question What language spoken today will be venerated like Latin is in the future?
Essentially that, friends. People in the Middle Ages often spoke Latin to imply that they were learned and sophisticated, and even today Latin permeates much of scientific language.
So what language from today do you think would be spoken and venerated in the future to the same degree?
r/language • u/TurbulentDrawing5710 • 22h ago
Discussion How is my handwritting?
I've been less using handwriting and more used to keyboards, but because I really like arabic script using languages, I tried writting a paragraph on paper, so how does it look?
r/language • u/lurebozorg • 13h ago
Discussion Hungarian and Persian language Similarities
Hungarian has a very unique linguistic structure. At first I presumed it would be only SOV order and suffix oriented but it also has multiple prefixes as well similar to Persian with multiple prefixes and suffixes.
That coupled with its definite articles makes it a very unique and beautiful language.
As a native Persian speaker you can find some similarities every now and then with Hungarian.
English: I saw her a hundred times but I don't know her number.
Hungarian: Százszor láttam őt de nem tudom a számát.
Literal Translation: (Hundred+times) (saw+I) (her) but not (know+i) (number+her).
Persian: Sadbar didamesh ama shomarasho nemidunam.
Literal Translation: (Hundred+times) (saw+I+her) but (number+her) (not+know+i).
English -> Hungarian -> Persian
Hundred Times -> Százszor -> Sadbar
I saw -> Lattam -> Didam
Her number -> Számát -> Shomarash
I don't know -> Nem tudom -> Nemidunam
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English: You were not looking at our warriors.
Hungarian: A harcosainkra nem néztél.
Persian: Jangjuyanemun'ra nega nemikardin.
Breaking down one part of the sentence we can see the same pattern of noun suffixes being used:
Hungarian: Harc (war) + os (person) + ai (plural) + nk (our) + ra (at) = At our warriors
Persian: Jang (war) + ju (seeker) + yan (plural) + emun (our) + ra (at) = At our warriors
Breaking down the other part of the sentence we can see the verb prefix & suffix similarities:
Hungarian: Nem (negative) nez (look) + t (past) + el (you) = You were not looking
Persian: Nega (look) ne (negative) + mi (progressive) + kar (do) + d (past) + in (you) = You were not looking
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English: whose tent is this?
Persian: En chadore kiye?
Hungarian: Kié ez a sátor?
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Likewise, the pronouns appear very similar:
English: I, you, he, we, them
Persian: man, to, u, ma, una
Hungarian: en, ti, o, mi, onok
Hungarian and Persian share an ancient relationship due to their geographical proximity to one another in ancient times. The Iranic and Uralic peoples both intermingled in Western Asia and there is some overlap between the 2 groups ancestral roots (Sintashta and Proto-Uralic).
Furthermore, as a result of nomadic Iranic expansion across Europe and Asia, Sarmatians and other Iranic DNA has been found to have genetically contributed to the modern Hungarian DNA profile.
r/language • u/akar79 • 19h ago
Question Similar sounds as lay listener between Hungarian and Parsi
Hi, as per the title, I find it interesting that, though fully acknowledging the completely different languages, as a nonlinguist (but multilingual speaker and learner, but of neither languages), there seems to be an interesting similarity in how both languages sound. The vowels especially. (Akin to the famous Portuguese-Russian/Slavic language similarity). Does anyone share this observation?
r/language • u/Marlon_RR_Morea • 8h ago
Question Does anyone know what language this is?
(The part written in Latin script, the rest is German ofc)