The following table provides a sense of some of the similarities in the language family.
Note: The Finnic/Carpathian “k” shows up often as Hungarian “h.” Similarly, the Finnic/Carpathian “p” often corresponds to the Hungarian “f.”
Carpathian
Finnish
Hungarian
（proto-Uralic）
（Suomi）
（Magyar）
el?—live
el?—live
él—live
elid—life
elinik?—life
élet—life
pes?—nest
pes?—nest
fészek—nest
kola—die
kuole—die
hal—die
p?l?—half, side
pielt?—tilt, tip to the side
fél, fele—fellow human, friend （half; one side of two） feleség—wife
and—give
anta, antaa—give
ad—give
koje—husband, man
koira—dog, the male （of animals）
here—drone, testicle
w?ke—power
v?ki—folks, people, men; force
val/-vel—with （instrumental suffix）
v?kev?—powerful, strong
vele—with him/her/it
wete—water
vesi—water
viz—water
2. CARPATHIAN GRAMMAR AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LANGUAGE
Idioms. As both an ancient language and a language of an earth people, Carpathian is more inclined toward use of idioms constructed from concrete, “earthy” terms rather than abstractions. For instance, our modern abstraction “to cherish” is expressed more concretely in Carpathian as “to hold in one’s heart”; the “netherworld” is, in Carpathian, “the land of night, fog and ghosts”; etc.
Word order. The order of words in a sentence is determined not by syntactic roles （like subject, verb and object） but rather by pragmatic, discourse-driven factors. Examples: “Tied vagyok.” （“Yours am I.”）; “Sívamet andam.” （“My heart I give you.”） Agglutination. The Carpathian language is agglutinative; that is, longer words are constructed from smaller components. An agglutinating language uses suffixes or prefixes whose meanings are generally unique, and which are concatenated one after another without overlap. In Carpathian, words typically consist of a stem that is followed by one or more suffixes. For example, “sívambam” derives from the stem “sív” （“heart”）， followed by “am” （“my,” making it “my heart”）， followed by “bam” （“in,” making it “in my heart”）。 As you might imagine, agglutination in Carpathian can sometimes produce very long words, or words that are very difficult to pronounce. Vowels often get inserted between suffixes to prevent too many consonants from appearing in a row （which can make a word unpronounceable）。
Noun cases. Like all languages, Carpathian has many noun cases; the same noun will be “spelled” differently depending on its role in a sentence. The noun cases include: nominative （when the noun is the subject of the sentence）， accusative （when the noun is a direct object of the verb）， dative （indirect object）， genitive （or possessive）， instrumental, final, suppressive, inessive, elative, terminative and delative.
We will use the possessive （or genitive） case as an example to illustrate how all noun cases in Carpathian involve adding standard suffixes to the noun stems. Thus expressing possession in Carpathian—“my lifemate,” “your lifemate,” “his lifemate,” “her lifemate,” etc.—involves adding a particular suffix （such as “-am”） to the noun stem （“p?l?fertiil”） to produce the possessive （“p?l?fertiilam”—“my lifemate”）。 Which suffix to use depends upon which person （“my,” “your,” “his,” etc.） and whether the noun ends in a consonant or a vowel. The table below shows the suffixes for singular nouns only （not plural）， and also shows the similarity to the suffixes used in contemporary Hungarian. （Hungarian is actually a little more complex, in that it also requires “vowel rhyming”： which suffix to use also depends on the last vowel in the noun; hence the multiple choices in the cells below, where Carpathian only has a single choice.）
Carpathian （proto-Uralic）
Contemporary Hungarian
person
noun ends in vowel
noun ends in consonant
noun ends in vowel
noun ends in consonant
1st singular （my）