Hungarian noble elites shifted their political language from Latin to Magyar

Evidence

Thus in 1820 the Tiger in Schlafrock (Tiger in a Nightgown), Emperor Franz II, made a fine impression with his Latin address to the Hungarian magnates assembled in Pest. In 1825, however, the romantic-radical grand seigneur Count István Széchenyi ‘staggered his fellow-magnates’ in the Diet by addressing them in Magyar! — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 431

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hungarian nationalism was born from proving the vernacular fit the highest literary genre — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 296; Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism; Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 480 (+1 more)

Related

• Hungarian nationalism was born from proving the vernacular fit the highest literary genre (similarity 0.89)
• Popular nationalism reproduced exclusion by demanding linguistic uniformity (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hungarian nationalism was born from proving the vernacular fit the highest literary genre #responds-to (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 296
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism #exemplifies (0.80)
• Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe #exemplifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 480
• Bilingual intermediaries linked Egypt’s Turkish-speaking elite and Arabic-speaking masses #exemplifies (0.70)