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ABOUT HUNGARIAN
Hungarian is the official language of Hungary, with about 13 million native speakers worldwide. The Hungarians call their language Magyar. It is considered extremely difficult for foreigners to learn, since its vocabulary comes largely from Asia and its grammar contains complex features not found in other Western languages.

Hungarian is one of the Finno-Ugric languages, which include Finnish, Estonian, and some of the languages spoken in Russia. Those languages, however, belong to the Finnic branch of this group, while Hungarian belongs to the Ugric branch. The only other existing Ugric languages are the Ostyak and Vogul languages of Siberia, an area more than 2,000 miles from Hungary. The term Ugric is derived from Ugra, an old Russian name for western Siberia. The Ugric peoples slowly migrated westward, eventually reaching present-day Hungary in the ninth century. Thus the Hungarian language is completely unrelated to any of the languages of its neighboring countries.

Since their forced migration and eventual settlement in the Danube in 896 A.D., the Hungarians have become completely Europeanized, with only their language retaining their Asian origins. They have incorporated many loanwords into their language from the Turkic and Slavic languages, as well as from Latin, Italian, and German.

The Hungarian alphabet is phonetic. The many vowel sounds in spoken Hungarian are indicated by acute accents, umlauts, and the unique double acute accent which appears over o and u. (Bőr = skin; fű = grass). The stress is always on the first syllable of any Hungarian word.

The most important English word of Hungarian origin is coach, after the village of Kocs (cs = ch sound in English), where coaches were invented and first used. Others are goulash and paprika.