Language code: hu
Technical information about ISO 639 language code hu
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The table below provides technical details for the Hungarian language, designated by the hu code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Hungarian Native Magyar |
| Family | Finno-Ugric |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | TransdanubianPalócTisza–Körös (Great Plain)SouthernTransylvanian PlainSzékelyCsángó |
| Related languages | MansiKhantyFinnishEstonian |
| Key facts | Only large European language that is not Indo-EuropeanAgglutinative grammar with about 18 grammatical casesApplies vowel harmony so suffix vowels change to match the stemAlphabet has 44 letters when digraphs and trigraphs are countedWord order is flexible and driven mainly by topic–focus rather than fixed positions. |
| Sample phrase | Szia, hogy vagy? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-16, Windows 1250, CP 852, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
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Hungarian belongs to the Uralic language family, more specifically to the Finno-Ugric branch. It is the official language of Hungary and is recognized as a minority language in Serbia and Slovenia. Hungarian is written using the Latin script, specifically the Hungarian alphabet. It is estimated that there are approximately 13 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
Speakers
9.5M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Hungarian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
hu-HU – Hungarian (Hungary)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ