Hungary

Extensive List of Languages of Hungary: Spoken and Extinct Languages

:: List of Languages ::

Armenian
[hye] 290 in Hungary (2001 census). Classification: Indo-European, Armenian

Croatian
[hrv] 14,300 in Hungary (2001 census). Ethnic population: 19,175. South border area. Dialects: Croatian, Serbian. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western

German, Standard
[deu] 33,800 in Hungary (2001 census). Ethnic population: 88,416. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German

Hungarian
[hun] 9,550,000 in Hungary (2001 census). 60,000–70,000 in Romania and Moldova speak Csango. Population total all countries: 12,501,270. Also in Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Israel, Romania, Russian Federation (Europe), Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United States. Alternate names: Magyar. Dialects: Alfold, Csango, West Danube, Danube-Tisza, King’s Pass Hungarian, Northeast Hungarian, Northwest Hungarian, Székely, West Hungarian. Most similar to the Uralic language Vogul (Mansi [mns]) in Siberia. Speakers of Standard Hungarian have difficulty understanding the Oberwart dialect spoken in Austria, and considerable difficulty understanding the Moldavian Csángó dialect spoken in Rumania. Classification: Uralic

Hungarian Sign Language
[hsh] 30,000 to 60,000 deaf. Widespread. Alternate names: Magyar Jelnyelv. Dialects: Budapest, Sopron, Debrecen, Szeged, Eger, Kaposvár, Vác. Related to Austrian Sign Language. Dialects have some different signs for lexical items, similar or same grammar. Classification: Deaf sign language

Romani, Balkan
[rmn] In Hungary, 150,000 Gypsies speak a variety of Romani as L1 (Réger 1995). Ethnic population: 190,000. Alternate names: Beás, Cigány, Roma. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Balkan

Romanian
[ron] 8,480 in Hungary (2001 census). Ethnic population: 9,162. East; Budapest. Alternate names: Daco-Romanian, Moldavian, Rumanian. Dialects: Boyash Romanian. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Eastern

Slovak
[slk] 11,800 in Hungary (2001 census). Ethnic population: 26,631. Southeast and near Slovak-Hungary border. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, West, Czech-Slovak

Slovene
[slv] 3,190 in Hungary (2001 census). Near Slovenia border. Alternate names: Slovenian. Dialects: Prekmurski. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western

:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/