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Countries

Countries

European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Second Language

United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa, Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Regulated By

known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)

Interesting Facts

  • Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
  • 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.

Similar To

Mansi and Khanty Languages

Derived From

East and South Slavic Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

40
Rank: 21 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

14
Rank: 11 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

25
Rank: 15 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

szia

Thank You

köszönöm

How Are You?

Hogy vagy?

Good Night

Jó Éjszakát

Good Evening

jó Estét

Good Afternoon

Jó Napot Kívánok

Good Morning

jó Reggelt

Please

Kérlek

Sorry

bocsi

Bye

viszlát

I Love You

Szeretlek

Excuse Me

elnézést

Dialects

Dialect 1

Csángó

Where They Speak

Bacău County, Rumania

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oberwart

Where They Speak

Austria

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 32 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Székely

Where They Speak

Székely Land

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00
Rank: 28 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

11
Rank: 11 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million
Rank: 49 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.19 %
Rank: 48 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.07 million
Rank: 67 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

magyar / magyar nyelv

Alternative Names

Magyar

French Name

hongrois

German Name

Ungarisch

Pronunciation

[ˈmɒɟɒr]

Ethnicity

Hungarians

History

Origin

1192 AD

Language Family

Uralic Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric

Branch

Ugric

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Hungarian

Standard Forms

Modern Hungarian

Language Position

66
Rank: 57 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Hungarian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hun

ISO 639 2/B

hun

ISO 639 3

hun

ISO 639 6

hun

Glottocode

hung1274

Linguasphere

ohu

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Hungarian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Hungarian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Hungarian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Hungarian. Hungarian phonology gives Hungarian vowels and Hungarian consonants. There are 14 vowels and 25 consonants in Hungarian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Hungarian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Hungarian language is given in detail in this section.

All Hungarian countries

Want to explore all Hungarian countries? About Hungarian language serves you with all Hungarian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Hungarian as official language are called as Hungarian countries.

  • Countries that use Hungarian as their National Language are: Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Hungarian as second language are: United States of America.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Hungarian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Hungarian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Hungarian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Hungarian language.Learn Hungarian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: szia
  • Thank you: köszönöm
  • Good Morning: jó Reggelt
  • Good Evening: jó Estét
  • Good Afternoon: Jó Napot Kívánok

All Hungarian Language Codes

Get to know all Hungarian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Hungarian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.