After thoroughly studying the 1211 land survey of the Abbey of Tihany, the author decided to continue her work along the general lines of Hungarian historical linguistic research and disclose even more exact information about the Hungarian language and its users of the decades following the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. This linguistic record…
The charters containing anthroponyms and toponyms in Hungarian are the most important sources of the early history of the Hungarian language. So far, special attention has been paid to genuine charters only. Considering, however, the availability of sources from the early period of Hungarian literacy, other source types (copies or even fakes) should also be…
The founding charter of the Abbey of Tihany is the oldest monument of the Hungarian language written in Hungary. The document — issued by Andrew I in Latin in 1055 — is preserved in its original form and contains 82 Hungarian elements: toponyms, common words indicating places and phrases made up of these parts. The…
