Hungarian

Hungarian is a natural language and a field of study, classified as a modern Ugric language. It is indigenous to Slovakia, Austria, Burgenland, and Hungary, with speakers also located in Romania and Ukraine. The native label for the language is magyar nyelv or magyar. It has approximately 12,600,000 speakers.

The language is agglutinative, nominative–accoustive, and follows a subject–verb–object word order. Its grammatical features include indicative, conditional, and imperative moods, as well as present and past tenses. Hungarian utilizes causal-final, translative, terminative, and formative cases. The writing system comprises the Hungarian alphabet and Old Hungarian.

The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics serves as the regulatory body. The language is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary. It is the subject of Hungarian grammar studies. The Wikimedia language code for Hungarian is hu.