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ISO 639-3 · hunhun
Uralic family
Hungarian
magyar nyelv
Hungarian is a language of the Ugric branch (Uralic), spoken in Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 12.6 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Ugric language mainly spoken in Hungary and surrounding countries”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
hun- ISO 639-1
hu- Glottocode
hung1274- Family
- Uralic
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 47.00, 19.00
- Wikipedia
- 208 language editions
12.6 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
3scripts
2levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Hungarian · magyar nyelv |
|---|---|
| Also called | Hungarian language, Magyar, Magyar language, Modern Hungarian, Modern Hungarian language |
| L1 speakers | 12,600,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Hungarian alphabet, Old Hungarian, Hungarian Braille |
| Official in | Hungary |
| Grammatical cases | 24 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Uralic to Hungarian
The branches above Hungarian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Also spoken in Hungary
romRomaniIndo-European · 46 mDefinitely endangeredukrUkrainianIndo-European · 34.7 m1 · NationalhrvCroatianIndo-European · 7 m1 · NationalhyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationalslkSlovakunclassified · 6 m1 · NationalslvSloveneIndo-European · 2.4 m1 · NationalyidYiddishIndo-European · 1 mDefinitely endangeredrueRusynIndo-European · 610,0006a · VigoroushshHungarian Sign Languageunclassified · 300,0005 · Developing