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Message: <blockquote data-quote="morbiczer" data-source="post: 1906227" data-attributes="member: 15119">Let me correct a few things:1. Bulgarian is a Slavic language. The Bulgarians were a Turkic people living north of the Black Sea. At the end of the 7th century AD a part of them moved to the Danube region, more or less into the current Bulgaria. (Other parts of the Bulgarians moved to the Volga, and possibly to other places too.) Those moving to the Danube conquered the Slavs living there, but since there were far more Slavs then Turkic-Bulgarians, the conquerors were assimilated within a few centuries. About the only thing (ASFAIK) which they carried over was the name "Bulgarian". The Bulgarian language is a regular Slavic language, although I can't rule out that it has Turkic loanwords in it. 2. Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language. Finno-Ugric is a language group completly different from both Indoeuropean and Turkic. Finnish and Estonian are also Finno-Ugric languages, but they are only very far related to Hungarian. Hungarian has a fair amount of Turkic words in it, but only because the ancient Hungarian tribes (sometimes called Magyars in literature) had Turkic people as neighbors for a long time. We also have lots of Slavic words for the same reason. But there can be no doubt that the basic vocabulary and basic grammar of Hungarian is Finno-Ugric. Edit: noticed too late that Turjan mentioned most of what I wrote already. Sorry for the "doublepost".</blockquote>