Hungarian Linguistics

 

 

 

JOANNIS SAJNOVICS

 

DEMONSTRATIO.


IDIOMA
UNGARORUM

ET

LAPPONUM
IDEM ESSE.

Tyrnavia, 1770.

 

 

Translations: Latin Hungarian German

Intoduction by Thomas A. Sebeok (excerpt)

Dedication

§. I. The Hungarian and Lapp languages can be same, even without mutual comprehensibility. (pp.1-13)

§. II. Are the Hungarian and Lapp languages same? from books of those people can not be investigated. (pp.14-19)

§. III. The identity of Hungarian and Lapp languages shown from the similar word pronunciation of both people. (pp.20-25)

§. IV. About the Leemian orthography of Lapps, compared to Hungarian orthography. (pp.25-37)

§. V. Conversion of the Leemian orthography of Lapps into Hungarian orthography. (pp.37-41)

Table I. (pp.39-40)

§. VI. About the diversity of dialects in general. (pp.41-51)

§. VII. About the diversity of the Mountainous and Maritime dialects of Lapps in Finmarchia. (pp.52-54)

Table II. (pp.53-54)

§. VIII. The identity of Hungarian and Lapp languages shown from the common vocabulary of both people. (pp.54-57)

The PEARL: 150 common words of the Hungarian and Lapp. (pp.58-83)

§. IX. The identity of Hungarian and Lapp languages shown from declension of nouns, comparison of adjectives, diminutive formations, and the use of numerals. (pp.84-92)

About nouns (pp.84-88)
About nominal adjectives. (pp.88-90)
About diminutives. (p.90)
About numerals. (pp.91-92)

§. X. The identity of Hungarian and Lapp languages shown from the similar use of pronouns, affixes, suffixes, and prepositions. (pp.93-99)

About possessive suffixes. (pp.94-97)
About verbal suffixes. (pp.97-98)
About adverbial suffixes. (p.98)
About prepositions. (p.99)

§. XI. The identity of Hungarian and Lapp languages shown from conjugations of verbs, and auxiliary verbs. (pp.100-110)

About tenses of simple verbs. (pp.100-103)
About auxiliary verbs. (pp.104-110)

§. LAST: The identity of Hungarian and Lapp languages confirmed by judgments of some famous authors. (pp.111-132)

Joannis Sajnovics' Demonstratio Idioma
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