Hungarian language

Hungarian
magyar
Native to	Hungary and areas of Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Native speakers	14–15 million (2005)[1]
Language family	Uralic Ugric? Hungarian
Writing system	Latin (Hungarian alphabet) Hungarian Braille
Official status
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
Language codes
ISO 639-1	hu
ISO 639-2	hun
ISO 639-3	Either: hun – Modern Hungarian ohu – Old Hungarian
Linguist List	ohu Old Hungarian
Regions of the Carpathian Basin where the Hungarian language is spoken

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.

1. ↑ Fenyvesi, Anna (2005), Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, p. 11, ISBN 9027218587.