Hungarian explained - such long words, such an isolated language

Why is Hungarian so isolated in Europe, surrounded by unrelated languages that don’t share its long words? An animated linguistic take on the history and grammar behind Hungarian’s uniqueness. Subscribe for language: Follow my progress or become a patron: ~ Spoiler Alert! ~ I couldn’t ignore the many commenters who’ve pleaded with me to give Hungarian a shot. After gathering up some grammars and purchasing Lendvai’s history, The Hungarians, I see why! I just had to share this linguistic tale. This video tells two stories that intertwine. First, how Hungarian got to be such a lonely language island among Indo-European languages. Second, how Hungarian uses a long-word-building strategy that’s “foreign“ in a European context: agglutination with vowel harmony. At the end, the two come together as linguists trace its words back to a common ancestor called Uralic. The Uralic family explains Hungarian’s uniquene