摘要
Our story goes back to 1820, when a Hungarian named Alexander Csoma de Koros left Europe on an eastward trek to what he chose to call the ＂Tartar Land.＂ A talented linguist fluent in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and Romanian （and possibly Turkish）, he believed that his mother tongue, Hungarian, is a relative of the ＂language spoken by a nomadic trade in Tibet far, far away.＂
