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Magyar nyelv, Magyar jelnyelv. Country. Magyarország. Hungarian Sign Language ( Hungarian: magyar jelnyelv) is the sign language of deaf people in Hungary. There is historical evidence that Hungarian and Austrian Sign Language are related, but Bickford (2005) found that Hungarian, Slovak, and Czech Sign formed a cluster with Romanian ...
National Sign Language (Research) Centre. Hallatlan Foundation, 1085 Budapest, Rigó utca 6-8.1. floor ; Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: "The Hungarian Sign Language Specialization is the joint course of Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities and HAS Research Institute for Linguistics Research Centre for Multilingualism.
The Hungarian Manual Alphabet (or a magyar ujjábécé in Hungarian) is used for fingerspelling in Hungarian Sign Language. The most common is the one-handed alphabet near the face, but an adapted LSF -style alphabet is sometimes employed. Hungarian manual alphabet primarily used. Alternate Hungarian manual alphabet inspired by LSF.
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1. Basics. Names. Hungarian Sign Language in Hungary. Size. 2. Status. Official country wide language. Official regional language. Official minority language. Recognised community language. Unrecognised community language. National language. No. Indigenous language. No. 3.
- Western Transdanubian Dialect
- Southern Great Plain Dialect Or Southern Dialect
- Palóc Or Northwestern Dialect
- Tisza-Körös Dialect Or Eastern Dialect
- Northeastern Dialect
- Transylvanian Plain Dialect
- Székely Dialect
- Moldavian Dialect
- Romungro Dialect
Formerly called West Hungarian. Due to the proximity of Austria its vocabulary is somewhat affected by German; for "yes", German ja is commonly substituted for standard Hungarian igen. Its pronunciation is characterized by the shortening of long vowels (tüz instead of standard tűz, buza instead of búza) and the lengthening of consonants (esső inste...
Spoken mostly between the rivers Danube and Tisza; also in the Banat. This was also the dialect of Budapest and its surroundings. Its vocabulary does not show significant differences from standard Hungarian; its dialect words come from Transdanubian, Palóc and Tisza regions. This has historical causes: the area suffered the most significant losses ...
Spoken in the northwestern part of the Cisdanubian region; mostly in the counties of Nógrád, Heves and the former county of Borsod (now the western half of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén), a part of Pest and Bács-Kiskun; also spoken in Southern Slovakia. Its vocabulary may use words from Slovak. Standard a is substituted by a short á, while standard á is sub...
Formerly called Tisza dialect. It is spoken east of the river Tisza, also by Hungarians living in Romania and Ukraine. It has vocabulary similarities with the nearby Transylvanian Plain dialect. Its pronunciation is marked by the use of í instead of the standard é: níz instead of néz, píz instead of pénz. East of Debrecen the vowel e is commonly pr...
Spoken in the eastern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County (mostly in the former county Zemplén), also in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County and parts of Slovakia. It was the main dialect of the region where important literary figures such as Ferenc Kazinczy (leading figure of the reforming and revitalizing of Hungarian in the 18th century) and Ferenc Kö...
Formerly called King's Pass, after a mountain pass in Transylvania. It is spoken in the non-Székely parts of Transylvania, a region of Romania formerly belonging to Hungary. Its characteristics are the pronunciation of a instead of standard o (bagár instead of standard bogár), and á instead of a. In several parts of the region the vowels are shorte...
The dialect most commonly associated with Transylvania has a distinctive vocabulary. Together with the region's traditions and folk culture it has given rise to significant literary works. The Székely dialect makes use of several Romanian loan words, which are not always understood by speakers of standard Hungarian.
Commonly called the Csángó dialect, this dialect differs the most from standard Hungarian, as a result of isolation from other Hungarian regions. The region where it is spoken is completely separated from the current territory of Hungary. The dialect has two subdialects: the archaic dialect and the Székely-Csángó dialect, the former being the only ...
The Romungro dialect is a version of Hungarian used by Roma people living in Hungary in various stages of assimilation. A large number of Hungarian Roma do not speak their original languages (Lovari or Boyash) any more, but Romungro has a large number of loan words from them. Original Romani words are conjugated in accordance with the rules of Hung...
About: Hungarian Sign Language. Hungarian Sign Language is the sign language of Deaf people in Hungary. There is historical evidence that Hungarian and Austrian Sign Language are related, but Bickford (2005) found that Hungarian, Slovak, and Czech Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign rather than with Austrian.
Hungarian Sign Language (HSL) The Dictionary of Hungarian Sign Language was published by the National Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in 1999. Its aim is to "support the claim that HSL is a natural language with its own vocabulary and grammar independent of spoken Hungarian and other sign languages" more than just a reference book to help learners.
