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The new desk lexicon of the Hungarian language contains 75,000 words, [57] and the Comprehensive Dictionary of Hungarian Language (to be published in 18 volumes in the next [clarification needed] twenty years) is planned to contain 110,000 words. [58] The default Hungarian lexicon is usually estimated to comprise 60,000 to 100,000 words. [59]
Uralic languages – Hungarian: The only official language of the country, unrelated to any of the neighbouring languages. It is the first language of some 98.9% of the total population. Indo-European languages – German: spoken by the German minority, especially in and around Mecsek Mountains, but also in other parts of the country.
The Uralic languages (/ j ʊəˈr æ l ɪ k / yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/ j ʊəˈr eɪ l i ə n / yoor-AY-lee-ən), [3] are spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for approximately 60% of speakers), Finnish, and Estonian.
Finno-Ugric (/ ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ juː ɡ r ɪ k,-ˈ uː-/) [a] [1] is a traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in the 19th century and is criticized by some contemporary linguists ...
The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic language family, alongside, most notably, Finnish and Estonian. There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. [ 1 ]
In total, over 42% of the world's population (3.4 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue , with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.
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Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups in Europe, and western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family. This is thus the biggest language family in the world by number of mother tongue speakers (but not by number of languages: by this measure it is only the 3rd or 5th biggest).