Anna Fenyvesi (ed.), Hungarian language contact outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language

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Anna Fenyvesi (ed.), Hungarian language contact outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005. Pp. xx, 424. Hb $162.00.

Hungarians living outside Hungary left the country in various ways: Some were voluntary migrants who began to seek economic opportunity or political asylum, while others became involuntary immigrants to neighboring countries when the Treaty of Trianon shrank the borders of Hungary by two-thirds in 1920. Because these involuntary minorities were difficult for researchers to discuss under the communist regimes that ruled until 1989 (p. 4), this edited volume introduces a recent body of research that previously has been published mostly in Hungarian.