18 Facts About Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.

Traditional view holds that the Hungarian language diverged from its Ugric relatives in the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in western Siberia east of the southern Urals.

Today, the consensus among linguists is that Hungarian is a member of the Uralic family of languages.

The earliest remaining fragments of the Hungarian language are found in the establishing charter of the abbey of Tihany from 1055, intermingled with Latin text.

The first extant text fully written in Hungarian language is the Funeral Sermon and Prayer, which dates to the 1190s.

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Standard Hungarian language lost its diphthongs, and several postpositions transformed into suffixes, including rea "onto" .

At one time, Hungarian language used six verb tenses, while today only two or three are used.

Today, the Hungarian language holds official status nationally in Hungary and regionally in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Austria and Slovenia.

Hungarian language has about 13 million native speakers, of whom more than 9.

Unlike English, Hungarian language uses case suffixes and nearly always postpositions instead of prepositions.

However, Hungarian is a topic-prominent language, and so has a word order that depends not only on syntax but on the topic–comment structure of the sentence .

Hungarian language has a four-tiered system for expressing levels of politeness.

Therefore, the history of Hungarian has come, especially since the 19th century, to favor neologisms from original bases, whilst still having developed as many terms from neighboring languages in the lexicon.

English word best known as being of Hungarian language origin is probably paprika, from Serbo-Croatian papar "pepper" and the Hungarian language diminutive -ka.

Hungarian language was originally written in right-to-left Old Hungarian runes, superficially similar in appearance to the better-known futhark runes but unrelated.

Hungarian language uses the so-called eastern name order, in which the surname comes first and the given name comes last.

Clarity, in foreign languages Hungarian names are usually represented in the western name order.

An example of foreign use, the birth name of the Hungarian language-born physicist called the "father of the hydrogen bomb" was Teller Ede, but he immigrated to the United States in the 1930s and thus became known as Edward Teller.