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Hungarian language
Uralic language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hungarian is a Uralic language. The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar.
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Hungarian | |
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magyar | |
Native to | Hungary and areas of Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine |
Native speakers | 14–15 million (2005)[1] |
Latin (Hungarian alphabet) Hungarian Braille | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() ![]() |
Recognised minority language in | |
Regulated by | Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | hu |
ISO 639-2 | hun |
ISO 639-3 | Either:hun – Modern Hungarianohu – Old Hungarian |
Linguist List | ohu Old Hungarian |
![]() Regions of the Carpathian Basin where the Hungarian language is spoken |
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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.