Hungarian

Ugric language mainly spoken in Hungary and surrounding countries
Intangible natural_language Q9067
Hungarian
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Summary

Hungarian is a natural language[1]. Hungarian ranks in the top 4% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,081 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Hungary[3], Romania[4], Slovakia[5], Ukraine[6], Serbia[7], Croatia[8], Austria[9], Slovenia[10]
  • Instance of: modern language[11], language[12], field of study[13]
  • Subclass of: Ugric[14]
  • Writing system: Hungarian alphabet[15], Old Hungarian[16], Hungarian Braille[17]
  • Commons category: Hungarian language[18]
  • Wikimedia language code: hu[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hungarian language[20]
  • Described at URL: https://uralic.clld.org/languages/24[21]
  • Language regulatory body: Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics[22]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 12,600,000[23]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[26]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/hungarian[27], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/hungarian[28]
  • Has characteristic: agreement[29]
  • Native label: magyar nyelv[30], magyar[31]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C123787[32]
  • Short name: венгерский[33], угорська[34], macarca[35], венгриаг[36], унгарски[37], венгерская[38]
  • UNESCO language status: 1 safe[39]
  • History of topic: history of the Hungarian language[40]

Why It Matters

Hungarian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] Hungarian is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Hungarian has been cited as an influence by Bordurian[43], a fictional language[44].

FAQs

Who did Hungarian influence?

Hungarian has been cited as an influence by Bordurian[43].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 208
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', '
    Isocat id → 712
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 712, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326647|Hungarian (#7326647)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hungarian-language
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: hungarian-language, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933588|hungarian language (#289933588)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  3. 18w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → sUg5y
    Audio → Hraskó Gábor bemutatkozás.ogg, Miskolc.ogg, Hu.kilogramm.ogg
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37385|batch #37385]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541)"
  4. 18w ago · Rodrigo · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Audio → Hraskó Gábor bemutatkozás.ogg, Miskolc.ogg, Hu.kilogramm.ogg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Audio: Miskolc.ogg"
  5. 19w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → Ugric language mainly spoken in Hungary and surrounding countries
    Svkkl authority id → h0004112-madarstina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004112-madarstina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  6. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Nci thesaurus id → C123787
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 4630, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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