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Hungarian Language



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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Origin of Hungarian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Hungarian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Hungarian language states that it was put to use in 1192 AD. The history of Hungarian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Hungarian Language History.The evolution of Hungarian language began with early forms such as Old Hungarian. Modern Hungarian is the standard form of Hungarian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Hungarian Language.

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Hungarian population

Hungarian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Hungarian language. Hungarian language is spoken by 13.00 million people in the world. Most of the Hungarian population lies in the Hungarian Speaking Countries. Hungarian language is spoken as first language by 13.00 million people and as second language by about 0.07 million people. Get to know Hungarian speaking population in detail.

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Hungarian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Hungarian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Hungarian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Hungarian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Hungarian language

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