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Hungarian

Hungarian

Summary

Hungarian is natively spoken by about 9.3 million people, primarily in Hungary and among Hungarian communities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, and Ukraine. It is essential to Hungarian cultural identity, known for its unique linguistic features and contributions to literature, folk music, and dance. Written in the Latin alphabet, Hungarian grammar features a free word order, extensive use of suffixes to indicate grammatical relationships, and vowel harmony.

Stats

  • Language Family: Uralic

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Agglutinative

  • Cases: 18

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 3

  • Word Order: Free

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 14

  • Number of Consonants: 27

Areas Where Spoken

  • Hungary (official) (84.6%) (8.16 mil) 

  • Romania (6.3%) (1.20 mil)

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TV

MédiaKlikk - TV and radio

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