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Hungarian, or Magyar (magyar nyelv, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈɲɛlv] ⓘ), is a Uralic language of the Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union.
The Hungarian Wikipedia (Hungarian: Magyar Wikipédia) is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on 8 July 2003 by Péter Gervai, this version reached the 300,000-article milestone in May 2015. [1] The 500,000th article was born on 16 February 2022. [2]
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑː r z / MAG-yarz; [25] Hungarian: magyarok [ˈmɒɟɒrok]), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) and other lands once belonging to the Kingdom of Hungary who share a common culture, and language.
Hungarian orthography (Hungarian: helyesírás, lit. 'correct writing') consists of rules defining the standard written form of the Hungarian language.It includes the spelling of lexical words, proper nouns and foreign words in themselves, with suffixes, and in compounds, as well as the hyphenation of words, punctuation, abbreviations, collation (alphabetical ordering), and other information ...
The Hungarians call themselves Magyar (Hungarian pronunciation:). The name Magyar once was the name of a Hungarian tribe, Megyer(i). It likely means "talking man". The first syllable may be cognate to the ethnonym Mansi, which in the Mansi language (манси mańśi) means simply 'man, Mansi'.
The geographic distribution of Hungarian dialects [1] [2]. Hungarian has ten dialects. [3] [4] These are fully mutually intelligible, and do not differ significantly from standard Hungarian except for the Csángó dialect.
^*It is debated whether the palatal consonant pair consists of stops or affricates. [3] They are considered affricates or stops, depending on register, by Tamás Szende, [1] head of the department of General Linguistics at PPKE, [4] and stops by Mária Gósy, [3] research professor, head of the Department of Phonetics at ELTE. [5]
Minority languages are spoken in a number of autochthonous settlements in Hungary.The country is a signatory of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which was ratified at 26 April 1995 under which 14 minority languages are recognized and protected. [2]