Oh, no...

I've just learned what language Dracula is supposed to have spoken... For some reason I was convinced that it had to be some variety of Hungarian. I was quite satisfied with that because Hungarian is in a completely different language family than all the languages I've studied, and so I've managed to convince myself that it's not worth the effort...

Well, actually, it turns out that he most likely spoke the Romanian language, which is within the Indo-European family and should be close to, for example, Spanish.

...On the other hand, I'm less fascinated by Dracula and more by Elizabeth Bathory... who is supposed to have a distant relationship to Dracula, and she spoke Hungarian... Which doesn't exactly make the situation easier, but rather more disturbing, because of how much those two figures are intertwined in my mind.