Interesting facts about the language
The Hungarian language belongs to the Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric languages within the Uralic language family. Hungarian is widespread in southern Central Europe and is spoken by over 13.5 million people; other estimates put the number at up to 15 million.
Hungarian is the official language of Hungary and, since May 1, 2004, one of the official languages of the European Union. Unlike most European languages, Hungarian does not belong to the Indo-European language family and is therefore not closely related to them.
The Hungarian alphabet has more letters than the German alphabet. If you count the letters in the Hungarian alphabet, you will come up with 44. A special feature of the Hungarian alphabet is that it also includes digraphs and a trigraph. A digraph is a letter made up of two letters. In Hungarian, there are the following digraphs: cs, dz, gy, ly, ny, sz, and ty. A trigraph is the combination of three letters. In Hungarian, this is the letter combination dzs. Hungarian has more vowels than German: a distinction is always made between vowels that are pronounced long (á, é, í, ó, ő, ú, and ű) and vowels that are pronounced short. In Hungarian, long vowels are marked with a diacritical mark above the letter – above a long vowel you will always find a slash pointing upwards to the right.
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Country info Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Located in the Pannonian Basin and crossed by the Danube River, it borders Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. The capital and largest city is Budapest. Other major cities include Debrecen, Miskolc, Szeged, Pécs, and Győr. Approximately 9.8 million people live in Hungary.
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Benefits of learning the language!
- You will find your way around when you are on holiday in Hungary.
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- You improve your career opportunities.
- They contribute to integration.
- They ensure better communication in bilingual relationships.
- This way you get to know a lot of people and can communicate with each other.
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- Within 3 months you can learn the basic vocabulary of over 1,300 Hungarian words.
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- Short daily learning time of only 17 minutes a day.
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The most important words in Hungarian
Hungarian Part 1
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