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Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries
5 10

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
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Alphabets
40 21

Phonology

How Many Vowels
14 11

How Many Consonants
25 15

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 34

Dialect 2
Oberwart

Where They Speak
Austria

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00 32

Dialect 3
Székely

Where They Speak
Székely Land

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00 28

Total No. Of Dialects
11 11

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million 49

Speaking Population
0.19 % 48

Native Speakers
13.00 million 43

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million 67

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 57

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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