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A Hungarian speaker. Hungarian ( magyar nyelv, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈɲɛlv] ⓘ) is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union.
Hungarian and the Ob-Ugric languages show several similarities and are known as the Ugric group, which is commonly (but not universally) considered a proper sub-branch of Uralic: that is, the Hungarian and Ob-Ugric languages would descend from a common Proto-Ugric language. The speakers of Ugric languages were still living close together ...
The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for approximately 60% of speakers), Finnish, and Estonian. Other languages with speakers above 100,000 are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt and Komi spoken in the European parts of the Russian Federation.
Finno-Ugric (/ ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ juː ɡ r ɪ k,-ˈ uː-/) [a] [1] is a traditional grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except the Samoyedic languages.Its formerly commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in the 19th century and is criticized by some contemporary linguists such as Tapani Salminen and Ante Aikio.
The Ugric or Ugrian languages ( / ˈjuːɡrɪk, ˈuː -/ [ 1] or / ˈjuːɡriən, ˈuː -/ [ 2]) are a branch of the Uralic language family . Ugric includes three subgroups: Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi. The latter two have traditionally been considered single languages, though their main dialects are sufficiently distinct that they may also be ...
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.
Other languages of the Finno-Permic branch of the family include e.g. Mari (c. 400,000), and the Sami languages (c. 30,000). [citation needed] The Ugric branch of the language family is represented in Europe by the Hungarian language (c. 13 million), historically introduced with the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin of the 9th century.
Hungarian has traditionally been classified as an Ugric language within the family of Uralic languages, but alternative views exist. [9] [10] [11] For instance, linguist Tapani Salminen rejects the existence of a Proto-Ugric language, saying Hungarian was a member of an "areal genetic unit" that also included Permic languages. [12]