Friday, January 13, 2012

Just a few things about me

My first name (as we call it: Christian name) is Zoltán, which is the Hungarian version of the Arab word “Sultan”. It is not considered a Muslim name, though, there are not many Muslims in Hungary, and the few thousand Muslims that live here are mainly immigrants.

Hungarians place the family name first, and the “first name” second, similarly to the Japanese, the Chinese, the Koreans and the Cambodians. When writing in foreign languages, we usually switch the order. This sometimes causes confusion.