Languages

Hungarian

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Hungarian." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/hungarian.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Hungarian. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/hungarian

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-hungarian,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Hungarian},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/hungarian},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Hungarian (magyar) is the official language of Hungary and the largest Uralic language by native speakers, spoken by about 12 million people in Hungary and neighboring parts of Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. It belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic family, unrelated to the Indo-European languages that surround it, and is written in a Latin alphabet with digraphs and diacritics of its own.

Facts

Speaker Count

12,000,000 1

Status

Living 1

Region

Hungary and areas of east Austria, Croatia, Romania, northern Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, western Ukraine 1

Cross-Tradition Connections