Language, power, assimilation, and minorities in multilingual space (based on contemporary hungarian novels)

Abstract

Abstract. There are Hungarians living in minority in all the neighbouring countries to Hungary, which is the result of the Treaty of Trianon, a peace treaty that was a part of the Paris Treaty Conference in Versailles as a closing to World War I. As a result, according to the last census in the countries that border on Hungary, today about 458 467 Hungarians live in Slovakia (2011), 1 219 312 of them live in Romania (2011), an approximate 300 000 Hungarians live in Serbia, 151 533 Hungarians live in Ukraine (2001), approximately 8 500 Hungarians are Slovenian citizens (1991), 6 763 Hungarians live in Austria (1991), and 14 048 Hungarians live in Croatia (2011). Transcarpathia is a region with a rich history and a colourful ethnic composition. Besides the representatives of the state-forming nation, there are Hungarians, Slovaks, Russians, and Romanians living here. Similar constraints exist in the minorities of other countries where presumably the same or similar effects of coexistence can be observed as in Transcarpathia.