Finno-Ugric languages comparison (basic words)

In this video you will see a comparison of all Finno-Ugric languages - Saami, Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Livonian, Hungarian, Komi, Udmurt and others. They are presented in comparison with the their older word ancestors for understanding the roots of words.

If you'll write in the comments I will make a continuation with other topics for you.

Enjoy!

[farkasadam]

Being a hungarian I often feel somewhat isolated in the world. When I saw "anya" (mother) well that hit me hard. It is so sad many of the uralic languages are in a brink of extinction.

[saarinen_east]

Guys, I have a lot more materials with words history and I can probably make a larger video in Finno-Ugric topic! I would like to know if you are interested! Thanks for watchin :)

[lippi]

The fact that at least some of the words of Hungarian and Khanti, Mansi actually stayed the same over the thousands of years is very impressive.
Considering the extreme distance both physically and in time.

[mysteriousDSF]

The story of Hungarians is such an odd one. Our closest relatives linguistically are those farthest geographically. There's a nascent theory among linguists that a Finnic / Ugro-Samoyedic division could be more accurate than the previously thought Samoyedic / Finno-Ugric division which I believe to be true and this video seems to support it.

[Nimmm]

Hungarian has changed a lot in the last few centuries. There was a monk in the 13th century called Julianus barát, who set out to the East to look for the ancient Hungarian motherland. At his destination, thousands of kilometers from Hungary, he found people whom he could still communicate with in his language, even though Hungarians settled in the Carpathian basin more than 350 years before that. After that the Hungarian language was neglected and in the 18th-19th century they "had to" reconstruct it a little because it was considered somehow "outdated and simple". This reconstruction was the "language renewal" that created the Hungarian language that exists today

Gyimóthy Gábor: Nyelvlecke

Egyik olaszóra során,
Ím a kérdés felmerült:
Hogy milyen nyelv ez a magyar,
Európába hogy került?

Elmeséltem, ahogy tudtam,
Mire képes a magyar.
Elmondtam, hogy sok, sok rag van,
S hogy némelyik mit takar,

És a szókincsben mi rejlik,
A rengeteg árnyalat,
Példaként vegyük csak itt:
Ember, állat hogy halad?

Elmondtam, hogy mikor járunk,
Mikor mondom, hogy megyek.
Részeg, hogy dülöngél nálunk,
S milyen, ha csak lépdelek.

Miért mondom, hogy botorkál
Gyalogol, vagy kódorog,
S a sétáló szerelmes pár,
Miért éppen andalog?

A vaddisznó, hogy ha rohan,
Nem üget, de csörtet – és
Bár alakra majdnem olyan
Miért más a törtetés?

Mondtam volna még azt is hát,
Aki fut, miért nem lohol?
Miért nem vág, ki mezőn átvág,
De tán vágtat valahol.

Aki tipeg, miért nem libeg,
S ez épp úgy nem lebegés, —
Minthogy nem csak sánta biceg,
S hebegés nem rebegés!

Mit tesz a ló, ha poroszkál,
Vagy pedig, ha vágtázik?
És a kuvasz, ha somfordál,
Avagy akár bóklászik.

Lábát szedi, aki kitér,
A riadt őz elszökell.
Nem ront be az, aki betér. . .
Más nyelven, hogy mondjam el?

Jó lett volna szemléltetni,
Botladozó, mint halad,
Avagy milyen őgyelegni?
Egy szó – egy kép – egy zamat!

Aki „slattyog”, miért nem „lófrál”?
Száguldó hová szalad?
Ki vánszorog, miért nem kószál?
S aki kullog, hol marad?

Bandukoló miért nem baktat?
És ha motyog, mit kotyog,
Aki koslat, avagy kaptat,
Avagy császkál és totyog?

Nem csak árnyék, aki suhan,
S nem csak a jármű robog,
Nem csak az áradat rohan,
S nem csak a kocsi kocog.

Aki cselleng, nem csatangol,
Ki „beslisszol” elinal,
Nem „battyog” az, ki bitangol,
Ha mégis: a mese csal!

Hogy a kutya lopakodik,
Sompolyog, majd meglapul,
S ha ráförmedsz, elkotródik.
Hogy mondjam ezt olaszul?

Másik, erre settenkedik,
Sündörög, majd elterül.
Ráripakodsz, elódalog,
Hogy mondjam ezt németül?

Egy csavargó itt kóborol,
Lézeng, ődöng, csavarog,
Lődörög, majd elvándorol,
S többé már nem zavarog.

Ám egy másik itt tekereg,
— Elárulja kósza nesz –
Itt kóvályog, itt ténfereg. . .
Franciául, hogy van ez?

S hogy a tömeg miért özönlik,
Mikor tódul, vagy vonul,
Vagy hömpölyög, s még sem ömlik,
Hogy mondjam ezt angolul?

Aki surran, miért nem oson,
Vagy miért nem lépeget?
Mindezt csak magyarul tudom,
S tán csak magyarul lehet. . .!

Firenze 1984. X. 12.

[fayhay]

I watch this video for 2 reasons
1)To see the vocabulary similarities of each language in the Finno-Ugric family language
2)Listening & bopping to the background music

[yossarian-cklm]

In Hungarian, the name for a human mother is "anya", and for animal females we have another ancient word: "emse". This may be related to the Finnish "emä" and Estonian "ema".

[nov-uh]

Thank you very much for this video!
Growing an only khanty in my class at school was so stressful. Even though in our motherland! Children were so evil for khanty children in our village. My aschem (dad) was so scared to teach me our native language because he was afraid that children in school will treat me worse and our language not so usefull in life as russian. There a lit parents who think like that even now!

But when I grew up and finally accepted myself - my ethnicity, appearance, history an so on. Now I understand that saving mother language, culture, history is very important. I'am learning North khanty language by books and videos that I found and my father teaching me to pronounce it correctly. But he doesn't now how to read books in khanty, he is an oral native speaker though.

[MaceY._.]

The Hungarian language map is worng. A lot of ethnic Hungarians (around 3+ millions) live near Hungarian borders + the Szeklers in Szeklerland in eastern Transylvania. This is the aftermath of the Treaty of Trianon...

[danimindak]

Finally, someone did make this type of video about the Finno-Ugric languages! Thanks, I love it! Greetings and good wishes from a Finno-Ugric country, Hungary! (Anyway, I would recommend that if you want to mark the language boundaries, then you should adjust it in some places, but I'm still happy that you did such a good job with this video.) Can you make other videos (like this) about the Finno-Ugric languages? (And fun fact: in Hungarian we have two words for dogs "kutya" and "eb". We usually use the word "eb" for purebred dogs, but the word "kutya" is good for any dog.)

[FreisturzX]

I felt so proud here while watching this wish we had Hungary closer to us

[Rhusakko]

Karelian/Finnish here. I was born in North Karelia in Finland where basically everyone spoke finnish but most of the people living here have an Karelian accent, where we replace words like "minä" with "mie" (Like it's in the video) and "ihminen" is "ihmine" for me. The only words I wasn't aware of in the Karelian language were "Mečča" and "Kizata" (Kizata sounds like Kisata in finnish which means compete). So basically I would say that I have a medium Karelian accent where I mostly say "Mie" and "Hyö" instead of the Finnish words. But some people in my family that have always lived in the Karelian speaking regions have really thick karelian accent, and sometimes they could be mistaken to actual Karelians. But yeah personally I can understand Karelian farelly well thanks to the accent, but I could not speak fluent Karelian if i tried to. Very awesome culture and traditions and I am happy to be part of the Karelian people.

(I did some editing when trying to fix some of my English words :D)

[felhomaly]

In Hungarian, there are alternative archaic forms of "te" = you (singular). It is "ten" or "tennen" eg. "ten magad" and "tennen magad".
Also, there is "ön" = you (singular) in the case of a socialy distant person.
These forms are same as chanty and manshy words for 'you', and closely related to other FU languages.

[ЮрийМеньшиков-ги]

That's cool that Finns, Estonians and Hungarians have their countries. At least i hope their grandchildren will know that there were times when Mari, Udmurt, Erzya etc. existed. Probably in 100 years we will perish and become like Karelians, who firstly lost in numbers, then lost their republic, language and lands. Love your people and country Finns, Estonians and Hungarians! There a lot of bullshit in modern world that tries to take you out of real world, but you must always love your nation and do everything to save them! I know what I'm talking about, I'm Mari. We are losing our nation and someone becomes Russian, but majority become nothing, they don't know their history, language but also can't feel themselves real russians. So they live in between, they don't have support from their nation because they don't have one, they don't have love and care for their land because they lost connection to it, they lose a lot of things that keep people strong in life. You may not understand what I'm talking about and I hope you never will. Take care of yourself! Or you will face bad consequences

[NyxAetherr]

Thank you for this video! As a Hungarian its so good to see, we have lot of common / similiar words. I wish the the nationalities who speak Finno-Uralic languages would be much more closer together. We all have beautufiul languages and culutre, so bad to know this language family dying out..

[aaronmarks]

I'm a linguist, and this is sooo freaking cool and well done. Love the music too!

[gyltube]

There are also hungarians (Szekler's and Csángó's) in Transylvania, who are also speaks hungarian language. Why is not showed in this map?

[ilokivi]

Thank you for sharing this survey of comparative vocabulary of the Finno-Ugric languages, as a student of Finnish it's fascinating to note the cognates within the Finnic and Ugric branches. What is notable is the choice at 3:53 of leikkiä; pelata means to play a game or sport, and soittaa means to play a musical instrument. This shows the depth and richness of the language.

[lisaistryingtolive]

2:10 in Udmurt "murt" in southern dialects and "mort" in northern ones also stands for "human", so it's more similar to the roots you've shown
P.S. hey from Udmurtia's capital, Ižkar!