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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

hu

Name

Official

Hungarian

Native

Magyar

Family
Finno-Ugric
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

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

Supported in Localizely

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

Hungary

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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