Uralic · ISO 639-3 hun · hu
Hungarian Language magyar
Hungarian is an Uralic language spoken by about 13 million people in 9 countries. It is an official language of Hungary. It is written in the Latin and Old Hungarian scripts.
Where Hungarian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Hungarian
Language family
- Uralic
- Hungaric
- Hungarian
Writing system
Latin and Old Hungarian scripts
About the Hungarian language
Hungarian (magyar) is spoken by about 13 million people, which makes it the 100th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tsonga (13 million) and ahead of Swedish (12 million). It belongs to the Uralic language family.
Where is Hungarian spoken?
Hungarian is used in 9 countries. The largest communities live in Hungary (9.9 million), Romania (1.2 million), Slovakia (612,001), Serbia (319,306) and Ukraine (131,948). More than half of the population speaks it in Hungary — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Share of the population that speaks Hungarian: Hungary 100% (9.9 million), Romania 6.6% (1.2 million), Slovakia 11% (612,001), Serbia 4.8% (319,306), Ukraine 0.4% (131,948) and Israel 1% (94,026).
Hungarian is an official language in 1 country: Hungary. It also has regional official status in Serbia and Austria.
Writing system and status
Hungarian is written in the Latin and Old Hungarian scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 hu, ISO 639-3 hun.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.