--- "Brian M. Scott" <
BMScott@...> wrote:
> At 1:26:54 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, Patrick Ryan
> wrote:
>
> > From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
>
> >> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> >> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> You wrote "Jasz". That is a region of Hungary.
>
> >> Why would I say 'Hungarian' when I am not
> Hungarian? I've
> >> never been a citizen of Hungary or even visited
> the
> >> country, and neither has any ancestor of mine in
> several
> >> generations been a citizen of Hungary, and I am
> not a
> >> Magyar either.
>
> [...]
>
> > Then why did you write "Jasz"?
>
> Presumably because it's precisely what he meant. As
> I
> understand it, the Jász were originally Ossetic.
>
> Brian
>
Here's what Wikipedia has to say. It's a fascinating
story
Jassic dialect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jassic (Hungarian: jász) is a dialect of the Ossetian
language and the name of a nomadic tribe settled in
Hungary in the 13th century. The Jassic people came to
Hungary together with the Cumanians, chased by the
Mongol-Tatars. They were admitted by the Hungarian
king Béla IV, hoping that they would assist in
fighting against a Mongol-Tatar invasion. But shortly
after their entry, the relationship worsened
dramatically between the Hungarian nobility and the
Cumanian-Jassic tribes and they left the country.
After the end of the Mongol-Tatar occupation they
returned and were settled in the central part of the
Hungarian Plain. Initially, their main occupation was
animal husbandry. During the next two centuries they
were fully assimilated to the Hungarian population,
their language disappeared, but they preserved their
Jassic identity and their regional autonomy until
1876. Over a dozen settlements in Central Hungary (eg.
Jászberény, Jászárokszállás, Jászfényszaru) still bear
their name. The only literary record of the Jassic
language was found in the 1950s in the Hungarian
National Széchényi Library. The language was
reconstructed with the help of Ossetian analogies.
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