Closest language to your language.

I am trying (on and off) to learn Hungarian. Obviously there aren't really any reasonably similar languages, unless you confine yourself to discussions of fish.

I have noticed lots of words of seemingly Slavic origin in Hungarian, such as kolbasz - sausage - (polish 'kielbasa', slovak 'klobasa' etc etc.) and galuska (which I have seen translated as 'noodle' but which appears to me to be a dumpling) - Polish 'kluska' Slovak 'haluska' etc.

I was wondering which Hungarian words are of Turkic origin either from the proto-Hungarians wanderings before they got to Pannonia or from the periods of Turkish rule of Hungarian lands. I vaguely remember that there is a Turkish word similar to the Hungarian 'uzlet' shop/business, but I'm not sure...

Sorry if this was bit off topic.

Which language is closest to Polish? Perhaps the website administrators have a view on this. I'd say Slovak, myself.

And which one is closest to Faeroese?

As to the closest to English, I'd say it is definitely Scots. Naw competishun.

As I recal it's not entirely clear wether Scots is a language...

Yeah, I just thought I'd inject a bit of controversy into the debate :)
Of course, American is the closest language to English.

No, 'American' isn't a language by far... it's American English ;)

Portuguese is the closest to Spanish... French is also quite close! :D

"As I recall it's not entirely clear wether Scots is a language..."

Well, it's not a dialect of modern English. The languages both evolved independently from Middle English. So what is it then?

The colsest language to Faeroese is Icelandic.

=>Well, it's not a dialect of modern English. The languages both evolved independently from Middle English. So what is it then? <=

Unclear, can't you read?

"Which language is closest to Polish? Perhaps the website administrators have a view on this. I'd say Slovak, myself. "

hmmm, funny that considering I find Slovak relatively easy to understand and Polish not

En mi caso, creo que el potugues es el idioma mas cercano al espanol.

"Which language is closest to Polish? Perhaps the website administrators have a view on this. I'd say Slovak, myself. "

I think, Czech.

Swede is right that Icelandic is the language that is closest to Faeroese, though the spoken language is not as close as the ethymologizing orthography which makes the language look more Icelandic than it really is. Faeroese lies between Icelandic and Norwegian.

Technically, although British English and American English are for sure the same language, is it really correct to call it 'English', as 95% or so of its speakers are not English and do not speak as they do in England? Just a thought.

american nic, yes I think so because the orign of English is from England.

=>yes I think so because the orign of English is from England<=

And England was called after the Angles,who came from Denmark. ;)