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The Hungarian language is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and in adjacent areas of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia (all territories lost after World War I). The Hungarian name for the language is Magyar.

There are about 14.5 million speakers, of whom 10 million live in Hungary.

Hungarian (Magyar)
Spoken in:	Hungary and 10 other countries
Region:	--
Total speakers:	14.5 million
Ranking:	66
Genetic classification:	Uralic Finno-Ugric Ugric Hungarian
Official status
Official language of:	Hungary, Slovenia, VojvodinaThe Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( Serbian: Hungarian: Vajdasag Autonom Tartomany Slovak: Autonomna pokrajina Vojvodina Romanian: Provincia Autonoma Voivodina Croatian: Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina Rusyn: is the northern province of Serbia. Its capit
Regulated by:	--
Language codes
ISO 639ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ISO 639 consists of different parts, of which two parts are currently published. The other parts are works in progress. Parts of ISO 639 There are two items for I-1	hu
ISO 639-2	hun
SIL	HNG

1 Classification

Hungarian is generally believed to be a member of the Ugric languages, a sub-group of the Finno-Ugric language family, which in turn is a branch of the Uralic languages.

There are various alternative theories about the origins of Hungarian language, but these are dismissed by most linguists owing to a lack of evidence:

Hungarian has often been claimed to be closely related to Hunnish, since Hungarian legends and histories show close ties between the two peoples. Some people believe that the Székely, a minority people in Hungary, are descended from the Huns. However, the link with Hunnish is uncertain, as are other theories (such as Hungarian being derived from the Sumerian language, which is also agglutining).
For many years (from 1869), it was matter of dispute whether Hungarian was a Finno-Ugric language, or was more closely related to some Turkic languages, a controversy known as the "Ugric-Turkish war". It is only in the discipline of linguistics that the "victory" of the Finno-Ugrists can be described as more or less complete, due to a lot of evidence from the languages themselves. However, significant evidence in some other sciences, including genetics and mainly archeology, still clashes with this theory. Finno-Ugrist scientists explain this phenomenon by stating that the origin of the language is not necessarily equal with the origin of the people, genetically. Thus the language is Finno-Ugric, some scientists say, but according to genetics and anthropology, the Hungarian people are rather similar to their neighbors: Germans and Slavs, than the Finnish, who are like the Swedes according to these points. The lack of serious direct (e.g. archeological) evidence also leads to the questioning of Finno-Ugric theory time and time again.

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