HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE


Meaning of HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE in English

Hungarian has about 14.5 million speakers worldwide

more than any other Uralic language

including 400,000–500,000 in North America. The earliest known text in Hungarian dates from the late 12th century; a continuous literary tradition begins in the 15th century. Contact with Turkic , Iranian , and {{link=Slavic languages">Slavic languages, and, more recently, High German dialects and Latin, has given Hungarian many loanwords.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.