This article needs additional citations for verification. This hungarian-ukrainian relations contains IPA phonetic symbols. Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.
It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family. There are numerous regular sound correspondences between Hungarian and the other Ugric languages. The distance between the Ugric and Finnic languages is greater, but the correspondences are also regular. The traditional view holds that the Hungarian language diverged from its Ugric relatives in the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in western Siberia east of the southern Urals.
Archaeological evidence from present day southern Bashkortostan confirms the existence of Hungarian settlements between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. Today the consensus among linguists is that Hungarian is a member of the Uralic family of languages. Finno-Ugric rather than a Turkic language continued to be a matter of impassioned political controversy throughout the 18th and into the 19th centuries. Hungarians did in fact absorb some Turkic influences during several centuries of cohabitation. This section does not cite any sources. The first written accounts of Hungarian, mostly personal name and place names, date to the 10th century. The Kingdom of Hungary was founded in 1000 by Stephen I.
A more extensive body of Hungarian literature arose after 1300. The earliest known example of Hungarian religious poetry is the 14th-century Lamentations of Mary. By the 17th century, the language already closely resembled its present-day form, although two of the past tenses remained in use. German, Italian and French loans also began to appear. The 19th and 20th centuries saw further standardization of the language, and differences between mutually comprehensible dialects gradually diminished. In 1920, Hungary signed the Treaty of Trianon, losing 71 percent of its territory and one-third of the ethnic Hungarian population along with it.
Hungarian is the official language of Hungary, and thus an official language of the European Union. The dialects of Hungarian identified by Ethnologue are: Alföld, West Danube, Danube-Tisza, King’s Pass Hungarian, Northeast Hungarian, Northwest Hungarian, Székely and West Hungarian. These dialects are, for the most part, mutually intelligible. Hungarian has 14 vowel phonemes and 25 consonant phonemes.
