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Hungarian

magyar
hu 13M speakers

Hungarian (magyar) is a Uralic language with approximately 13M speakers speakers. It is written using the Latin script. Its BCP 47 language code is hu.

Hungarian (Magyar) is a Uralic language and the official language of Hungary. Despite being surrounded by Indo-European languages, Hungarian is not closely related to any of its neighbors, belonging instead to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family.

Hungarian is notable for its agglutinative morphology, a large number of grammatical cases (18 in some analyses), and vowel harmony. It is written with a modified Latin alphabet that includes several letters with diacritic marks (á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü, ű).

Writing Systems Used for Hungarian

Latin
Primary
Hello World
LTR Latn

Frequently Asked Questions

What alphabet or script does Hungarian use?
Hungarian is written using the Latin script (ISO 15924 code: Latn). Latin is written left-to-right.
What direction is Hungarian written?
Hungarian is written Left-to-right. Text runs from left to right, the same direction as most European languages.
How many people speak Hungarian?
Hungarian has approximately 13M speakers speakers worldwide. It is a member of the Uralic language family.
What language family does Hungarian belong to?
Hungarian belongs to the Uralic language family. It is written with the Latin script.
What is the language code for Hungarian?
The BCP 47 language code for Hungarian is "hu". This code is used in software, web standards (the HTML lang attribute), and internationalization contexts.

Language Facts

BCP 47 Code
hu
ISO 639-3
hun
Status
living
Speakers
13M speakers
Language Family
Uralic
Scripts
1
Primary Script
Latin

Other Latin Languages

Acehnese Acoli Adangme Afar Afrikaans Aghem Akan Akoose Alabama Albanian Aleut Anii Ao Naga Aragonese Araona Arapaho Arawak Aromanian Arpitan Asturian

Data sourced from Unicode CLDR and ISO 639-3. Last updated April 20, 2026.