Finno-Ugric Congress in Budapest (newsreel) (Q4105): Difference between revisions

the text in the newsreel: Several thousand years ago, the Finno-Ugric related peoples emerged from their ancestral homeland near the Urals. The kinship can be proven mainly by the methods of linguistics, for example, the Mansi word "ulum" corresponds to the Hungarian dream. Or in one of the Khanty folk tales, the main character flies on a griffin bird, just like in our folk tale. These Finnish peasants resemble the Hungarians of the Danube–Tisza Interfluve. At the initiative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a Finno-Ugric congress was organized in Budapest. The series of sessions held with the participation of about five hundred foreign and Hungarian scientists was opened by Gyula Ortutay, academician. The first lecture was given by Géza Bárczi, Hungarian scientist. Professor Steinitz, vice president of the Berlin academy, reported on his latest research. The correspondence and pronunciation of the Finno-Ugric vowel has not yet been sufficiently clarified. […]