Two musical nations are divided by language and rhythm
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The Czechs and Hungarians, two of the most musical nations on earth, keep their treasures as far apart as the languages they speak. The Czechs belong to the Slavonic group of languages, the Hungarians to the Finno-Ugaritic. The rhythms of their music, dictated by speech patterns, are seldom heard in the same programme. Don’t ask me why….
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
In Czech here.
In Spanish here.
And in The Critic.
Hungarian belongs to finno-ugric languages group. Ugaritic is a semitic language attested in the ancient city of Ugarit (Syrian coast) nearly 4000 years ago.
I don’t think that the traditional classification “Finno-Ugric” is still accepted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages#Classification