The linguistic influence of French upon Hungarian is very little, although many poets and thinkers were influenced by the philosophy of the French revolution (1789).

Thank you very much. Yes, indeed. I even wrote two papers about it. But of course you know it incomparably better than me. My knowledge of the Hungarian language, to put it mildly, is strictly limited, but I used dictionaries for my analysis. I am sure that the Hungarian language is one of the most difficult for foreigners. I felt fascinated by this beautiful language and even read a lot about its history. But I understand that to become fluent in Hungarian would require a score of years and even then the success is far from being certain.

If I remember right, the Hungarian language was mainly influenced by Latin and German. And to some extent by Slavic languages.

My language tamil does not have any influence of French.

The mapping of French tamil translation

Aparna Sathya Murthy, thank you very much.

Totally? Not a single word of French origin? Not even "champagne"? How do you call it then in Kannada? How extraordinary.

Do you think this is good?

Dear Raghav Raaja, thank you very much for this information.

This is new to me. I would think, as there is to some extent French speaking Puducherry next to Tamil Nadu, there might be some influence, after all. It turns out there is none.

Dear Raghav Raaja,

Or maybe Puducherry is a part of Tamil Nadu, sorry, if I mixed something up. I just couldn't remember exactly. Perhaps, you'll tell me.

From the linguistic point of view , the main thing is that there are contacts conducive to lexical borrowings.

Dear Aparna Sathya Murthy,

So, you can find something of French origin, after all. But sometimes even such words find substitutes. For example, in German they have not only der Champagner, but also der Sekt with the same meaning. And in Hungarian ' champagne' is 'pezsgő'.

Learning foreign language is always benefit since through this added language you discover a new civilisation with a new way of life. This allow you then to have a new ideas and to improve your life quality and standard

My mother tongue is Arabic .. There are other languages taught in schools within the curriculum, including French.In fact it did not affect much in our native language, but there are some simple French vocabulary used in our Arab society, such as greetings and words of thanks, and some cosmetics and other

Dear Hassan El Bari,

Thank you for your answer.

One cannot but agree with your opinion.

Yes, each language is a new world.

Best regards,

Igor Boichuk

Dear Ekhlas A. Hussein,

Thank you ever so much for such a detailed and interesting answer.

This is really valuable for my research.

I believe that there is more French in the Maghreb than in other Arab-speaking countries.

Best regards,

Igor Boichuk

Actually turkish language influence my native language and I considered it in a positive way.

Any language if it’s influence on your language mostly because you’re interested in this language and you want to learn it and I found it great to learn new language

Thank you too, wish you secusess and all the best in your study, and yes you are right about Maghreb, they use French more

Dear Sura Saad,

Thank you so much for your response.

I wrote an article about French words borrowed by the Turkish language. It turns out that about 10-11% of the Turkish vocabulary are the words borrowed from French. Quite a few, isn't it. I find this amazing.

You are absolutely right - it is a pleasure to learn a new language.

Best regards,

Igor Boichuk

Dear Ekhlas A. Hussein,

Thank you very much for your kind wishes, I wish you the same.

This depends on many factors, including the importance of the language of the country in which you live, the importance of the language for your business, as well as your personal desire to learn the language.

  Thus, one of the factors that determine the proportion of the importance of a language on another language and the extent of use beside the mother tongue As well as its impact on the mother tongue

Greetings

Dear أ.م.د. نبراس طه خماس ,

I agree with you.

Best regards,

Igor

I agree with Dr. Ekhlas_Hussein

Dear Anastas Ivanov Ivanov,

Thank you very much for this information.

In Russian there are lots of words from French. The Russian nobility spoke mainly French for almost a century and this left its traces in the Russian language. We also have "merci" and "pardon", but it sounds rather ironical nowadays.

Best regards

No!

Dear Carine Temegne Nono,

Thank you very much for your answer.

I'm afraid I do not quite understand what exactly you mean. Presumably, you do not think that the influence was positive? Am I right or am I missing something?

Best regards.

Dear Terry Purvis,

Thank you very much for this valuable information and the link.

Best wishes,

Igor

Interesting discussion - Definitely Indirectly ( Bengali and French ) .

Google Translator !

Dear, Dr. Igor Boichuk,,,

As I think, we have no French words in our native language.

Best wishes.

We have little number of English words.

Dear Vadim S. Gorshkov,

Thank you very much for such a detailed answer. I find it brilliant. This area is part of my research to some extent. Let me tell you that you are very well versed in this matter. You are absolutely right, there are lots of borrowings in Russian. Even "loshad' " comes from the Tatar language, and "tetrad' ' from the Greek language.

Yes, and about massive English borrowings, some people even speak about Runglish. Russian is increasingly borrowing from English.

Dear Dr. Yehia A. Salih,

Thank you for your response.

It seems to me that Semitic languages are less inclined to borrow words from other tongues. There must be an explanation for this.

Very best wishes

Yes, dear Dr. Igor Boichuk , I am in agreement with you Sir.

Dear Yahia Z Hamada,

You are right. English is quite special in this respect, since its vocabulary combines the words of both Germanic and Romance origin. As is well known, English vocabulary was strongly influenced by French.

Dear Dr. Yehia A. Salih,

Thank you, Sir.

Dear Jaydip Datta,

Thank you.

Oh, Bengali, the language of Rabindranath Tagore!

What is the meaning of this? Sorry, I don't understand you.

Igor Boichuk According to Google Translate, لم تؤثر على لغتي مطلقا means "Never affect my language"

Google Translate is a useful tool that gives helpful approximate translations: https://translate.google.ca/?hl=en&tab=TT

Karl Pfeifer ,

Many thanks. Yes, indeed.

Yes, it had a great impact .. positive on the one hand and negative on the other hand.

But I wish I had learned English, it would have been better ... the French language retreated, not the language of science

The French, with their fanaticism, made it a language for them, their villages, their cities and their alleys, and they could not spread it to be a universal language like the English, so they lost a great battle.

Dear Dr. Taher Alkhalaf ,

Many thanks for your very interesting feedback.

Best regards

I think it hasn't influenced any of the Slavic languages.

Dear Professor Mirna Leko Šimić ,

Thank you very much for your response.

In any case, Russian and Polish were strongly influenced by French. Russian nobility spoke mainly French among themselves for most than a century. A. S. Pushkin writes that even for rural gentry it was sometimes easier to draft a love letter in French than in Russian. This diglossia left indelible traces in Russian, of course. As for Polish, I (with my co-authors) even wrote an article concerning how Romance languages, and, in the first place, French influenced Polish.

Best regards

Each language has its own cultural charge. If you are learning the French language. It is likely to be accompanied by a greater or lesser influence in terms of culture and lifestyle as you will probably learn also French history.

Dear Dr. Hassan El Bari ,

Thank you very much for your valuable contribution.

Best regards

Not at all.

Dear Dr Md. Abdur Razzak Choudhury ,

Thanks for your reply.

Best regards,

IVB

Dear colleague,

From your question, I'm not sure whether you mean the fact that I learned French or the influence of French in the history of my mother tongue (in my case Italian).

Dear Dr. Sara Vecchiato ,

I mean how French influenced your mother tongue. It would be very interesting, though, to know the implications of learning French for you too.

French surely has had a very strong influence on Italian. A whole branch of "Franco-Italian literature" was popular in Italy from the 12th to the 14th century ("The Travels of Marco Polo" was originally written in Franco-Italian). The two languages influenced one another since then.

Dear Dr. Jaba Tkemaladze

I am very grateful to you for your answer. Could you tell me if there are many loanwords from French in your native language?

Dear Dr. Sara Vecchiato ,

Thank you very much indeed for the valuable information.

Now I remember that when I studied at university, Franco-Italian literature was mentioned, but, regrettably, without much detail.

It is very interesting that "The Travels of Marco Polo" was originally written in Franco-Italian.

As far as I know, even at the Italian royal court, French was spoken at one time.