hunTechnical information about ISO 639 language code hun
The table below provides technical details for the Hungarian language, designated by the hun code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Hungarian Native Magyar |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Western TransdanubianCentral TransdanubianSouthern TransdanubianSouthern Great PlainPalócNorthern HungarianTisza–KörösNortheastern HungarianSzékelyCsángó |
| Related languages | KhantyMansiFinnishEstonian |
| Key facts | Hungarian is the largest language of the Uralic familyIt is highly agglutinative, with regular use of 18–21 grammatical casesWord stress is fixed on the first syllableVocabulary shows heavy historical borrowing from Turkic, Slavic, German and LatinAn old runic-style script called rovásírás was used before adoption of the Latin alphabet |
| 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 |
The Hungarian language, identified by the code hun, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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