Hungarian (magyar nyelv listen (help·info)) is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group, spoken by the Hungarian people. With approximately 13 million speakers, it is the largest non-Indo-European language in Europe, according to the number of native speakers. Hungarian is the official language in the Central European country of Hungary and is also spoken by Hungarian communities in the seven neighboring countries and by diaspora communities w...
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Hungarian (magyar nyelv listen (help·info)) is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group, spoken by the Hungarian people. With approximately 13 million speakers, it is the largest non-Indo-European language in Europe, according to the number of native speakers. Hungarian is the official language in the Central European country of Hungary and is also spoken by Hungarian communities in the seven neighboring countries and by diaspora communities worldwide.
The Hungarian name for the language is magyar [ˈmɒɟɒr], which is also occasionally used as an English word to refer to the Hungarian people as an ethnic group.
Hungarian is a Uralic language, more specifically an Ugric language; the most closely related languages are Mansi and Khanty of western Siberia (see Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). Connections between the Ugric and many other languages were noticed in the 1670s and established, along with the entire Uralic family, in 1717, although the classification of Hungarian continued to...
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