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Name: Hungarian
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Magyar; magyar; vengr; Ungarisch; Neuungarisch; hongrois; mad'ar; vengri; Magyarisch; unkarin kieli; vengerskij jazyk; Ungarische Tzeckler
Spoken in: Ukraine, USA, Australia, Serbia and Montenegro, Israel, Slovenia, Romania, Canada, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria
Number of speakers: 9,550,000 in Hungary (2001 census). 60,000–70,000 in Romania and Moldova speak Csango. Population total all countries: 12,501,270 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 25000 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 9550000 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: hun
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed)
Parent Language: Old Hungarian; Altungarisch (ohu)
Child Dialects: Csángó; Csango; Csángó-Mundart (hun-csa) Northeast Hungarian; Nordost-Dialekt; nordöstliches Mundartgebiet; Northeastern; nordöstlicher Dialekt (hun-nor) West Hungarian; West-Dialekt; westliches Mundartgebiet; Western; westlicher Dialekt (hun-weh) Northwest Hungarian; nordwestliches Mundartgebiet; Northwestern; nordwestlicher Dialekt (hun-now) King's Pass Hungarian; Mundartgebiet jenseits des Königsteigs; King's Pass (hun-kin) Székely; Szekler-Dialekt; Seklergebiet; Szekler Dialekt (hun-sze) West Danube; Mundartgebiet jenseits der Donau; 'Beyond Danube' (hun-wes) Danube-Tisza; Theiss-Dialekt; Donau-Theißgebiet; 'Danube-Tisza'; Donau-Theiss-Dialekt (hun-dan) Alföld; Alfölder Mundartgebiet; Alfold (hun-alf) Oberwart (hun-obe)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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