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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6270 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 1 of 3 23 May 2011 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
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A notable Hungarian polyglot of the late 19th and early 20th century, whose contributions
to knowledge of the Iranian languages in particular were well-known in his time, though only in the Hungarian version of Wikipedia is there a Wiki article about him. http://riowang.blogspot.com/2010/10/man-with-cat.html Try as I might, I can't seem to eliminate the gap in this, so can't link directly to it. However, that is its URL. Edited by Fasulye on 23 May 2011 at 8:00pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
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No problem, William Camden, I will present the following link about the language achievements of this notable Hungarian polyglot:
Life and achievements of Sándor Kégl in English Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 23 May 2011 at 8:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6270 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 3 of 3 26 May 2011 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
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In the URL I posted, Kegl gives a Romanised transcription of some Ottoman Turkish poetry.
He wrote it well before a Latin alphabet was adopted for Turkish, but Kegl's Romanisation anticipates it, even though it naturally has Hungarian spelling features, like sz for the sound English speakers express with s. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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