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Language code: hun

Technical information about ISO 639 language code hun

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The table below provides technical details for the Hungarian language, designated by the hun code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

hun

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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