Hungarian Language

The Hungarian Language

Magyar (pronounced mawdyar), as we Hungarians call our language, is spoken by the
approximately 10.3 million inhabitants of Hungary, as well as another 4 million people in
neighboring countries and a million others scattered around the world.

The Hungarian language belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family, which includes
Finnish and Estonian. The Hungarian language is not at all related to the Indo-European
languages which surround Hungary, and the language is very different both in vocabulary
and in grammar.

The Hungarian grammar is seemingly complex, yet there is no gender, a feature that
most English speakers grapple with when learning other European languages.

The Hungarian language does use the Roman alphabet however, and after learning a
few simple rules one can easily read Hungarian.

Pronunciation of Hungarian is also very easy, especially compared to other neighbouring
languages like Czech, German, and Russian.

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