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Translation into Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian language, also called Magyar, member of the Ugric group of the Finno-Ugric languages. These languages form a subdivision of the Uralic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.

Geographic distribution:

  • Hungarian is spoken by approximately 10 million people in Hungary
  • by an additional 3 million throughout Eastern Europe, Russia, the United States, and elsewhere.

There are a number of dialects. Like the other Uralic and Altaic languages, Hungarian has vowel harmony and agglutination.


Old Hungarian

The standard language lost its diphthongs, and several postpositions transformed into suffixes, including reá “onto” (the phrase utu rea “onto the way” found in the 1055 text would later become útra). There were also changes in the system of vowel harmony. At one time, Hungarian used six verb tenses, while today only two or three are used.

Modern Hungarian

In the 18th century a group of writers, most notably Ferenc Kazinczy, spearheaded a process of nyelvújítás (language revitalization). Some words were shortened (győzedelem > győzelem, ‘triumph’ or ‘victory’); a number of dialectal words spread nationally (e.g., cselleng ‘dawdle’); extinct words were reintroduced (dísz, ‘décor’); a wide range of expressions were coined using the various derivative suffixes; and some other, less frequently used methods of expanding the language were utilized. This movement produced more than ten thousand words, most of which are used actively today.

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