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INTRODUCTION.

particular view to the affinities between the Hungarian and the Oriental tongues. This is also the object of Verseghi's A'tiszta Magyarsag, or "the pure Hungarian tongue," which has led to a philological controversy, in which he has been attacked by Joh. Miklosi, in a volume entitled Verseghi Ferentz nek Tisztátalan Magyarsága, or Fr. Verseghi's impure Hungarian Tongue.[1]


Jos. von Márton's Hungarian and German Dictionary is the best. The last edition of Fr. Paris

Papais' Dictionarum Latine-Hungaricum contains a history of all the vocabularies of the Magyar tongue.

  1. Mithridates, Vol. II. 781-3.