Hungarian |
---|
|
Native to | Hungary and areas of Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine |
---|
Native speakers | 14–15 million (2005) |
---|
Language family | |
---|
Writing system | Latin (Hungarian alphabet) Hungarian Braille |
---|
|
Official language in | Hungary European Union Slovakia (regional language), Slovenia (regional language), Serbia (regional language), Austria (regional language), some official rights in Romania, Ukraine and Croatia |
---|
Recognised minority language in | Romania Ukraine Croatia Slovakia Slovenia Serbia Austria |
---|
Regulated by | Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
---|
|
ISO 639-1 | hu |
---|
ISO 639-2 | hun |
---|
ISO 639-3 | Either: hun – Modern Hungarian ohu – Old Hungarian |
---|
Linguist List | ohu Old Hungarian |
---|
|
Hungarian is a Uralic language. The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar.
The Finno-Ugric languages also include Finnish, Estonian, Lappic (Sámi) and some other languages spoken in Russia: Khanty and Mansi are the most closely related to Hungarian. The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar.
Although Hungarian is not an Indo-European language, unlike most other European languages, its vocabulary has many words from Slavic and Turkic languages and also from German.
view more...