Hungarian (magyar)

Hungarian is a Uralic language with about 15 million speakers in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine and Slovakia. There are also many people of Hungarian origin in the UK and other European countries, the USA, Canada and Australia.

Hungarian is a highly inflected language in which nouns can have up to 238 possible forms. It is related to Mansi, an Ob-Ugric language with about 4,000 speakers who live in the eastern Urals, and Khanty or Ostyak, the other Ob-Ugric language which is spoken by about 15,000 people in the Ob valley of western Siberia.

The earliest Hungarian literature, dating from the 12th century, was in Latin. Texts in Hungarian started to appear during the 13th century. The first book to be printed in Hungarian was published in 1527 in Krakow, Poland. Hungarian literature flourished during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Hungarian alphabet (magyar ábécé) and pronunciation

Hungarian alphabet and pronunciation

Q (kú), W (dupla vé), X (iksz) and Y (ipszilon) are also used, but only in foreign loanwords.

Sample text in Hungarian

Minden emberi lény szabadon születik és egyenlő méltósága és joga van. Az emberek, ésszel és lelkiismerettel bírván, egymással szemben testvéri szellemben kell hogy viseltessenek.

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Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Longer sample text (Tower of Babel)

Hungarian language courses, dictionaries, etc.

Useful phrases in Hungarian

Links

Online Hungarian lessons
http://www.magyarora.com
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/d/adr10/hungarian.html
http://www.hungarotips.com/hungarian/
http://impulzus.sch.bme.hu/info/magyar.shtml
http://learnhungarian.hupont.hu

HungarianReference - a reference guide to the Hungarian language, designed with English-speakers in mind: http://www.hungarianreference.com

Hungarian <> English dictionary
http://szotar.sztaki.hu

Hungarian Electronic talking dictionaries
http://www.ectaco.com
http://www.english2hungarian.com

Magyar Rádió Online - Hungarian language radio
http://www.radio.hu

Online Hungarian news
http://www.mno.hu
http://www.napi.hu
http://www.nol.hu
http://www.nepszava.hu
http://www.reggel.hu
http://www.vilaggazdasag.hu

A Magyar Nyelvtudományi Társaság Folyóirata
- Journal of the Society of Hungarian Linguistics (in Hungarian and English)
http://www.c3.hu/~magyarnyelv/

Hungarian Literature Online
http://www.hlo.hu/

Related languages

Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Karelian, Khanty, Komi, Livonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Saami, Udmurt, Võro, Votic

Other languages written with the Latin alphabet

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