accents/dialects in other languages...

[alice_loves_cats]

<snipping many people's comments on dialects in other languages>

Alice:

To complicate matters further:

In Hungarian, the books use a sort of basic "accent we give people who
are supposed to have an accent" - it's not really an accent of any
specific region, more like "something different", a medley, that
everybody can understand, and tht can be conveyed in print. Something
like what someone would speak if they had left their home county and
come to live in the capital a couple of decades ago. It's acceptable
mainly because there is realtively little variation in accents in
today's Hungary anyway: none of the enormous chaos that goes on in the
English-speaking world. There are only 15 million Hungarians
altogether, and only 10 million living in the country. 

Love, Alice