Hungarian

Danube-straddling nation's language

Hungarian refers to the people, language, or things of Hungary, a landlocked country in Central Europe.

The Hungarian language belongs to the Finno-Ugric family, unrelated to the Slavic and Germanic tongues surrounding it.

As a noun, a Hungarian is a person from Hungary: My grandmother was Hungarian.

The cuisine features paprika prominently: Hungarian goulash.

cuisine

goulash

Paprika-seasoned meat stew

caraway

country

Budapest

Hungarian capital city

Habsburg · Ottoman · Magyars · parliament · thermal baths · puszta

language

Finno-Ugric

Language family including Finnish

suffixation · inflection · morphology · phonology · syntax · grammar · digraph · trigraph · loanwords · Sami

ethnicity

Magyars

Hungarian ethnic group

ethnography · folklore · embroidery · steppe · horsemen · migration · ancestry

Categories
Opposites
language family isolation

HungarianSlavic

Of certain Eastern Europeans

Indo-European · Slovak · Romanian · Serbian · Croatian

uralic vs indo-european

HungarianIndo-European

Vast language family

Slavic · Germanic · Romance · Latin · Greek

linguistic isolation vs relatedness

HungarianSpanish

Language of Iberia

French · Italian · Portuguese · Russian · Polish

Phrases
Family

Hungarians

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G