Hungarian
Let an agent explain the Hungarian language and its dialects, relay grammar, history and status from linguistic sources with attribution, describe minority communities including in Ukraine, and distinguish Hungarian from neighbouring languages and from disputed origin theories.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the Hungarian language and its dialects, relay grammar, history and status from linguistic sources with attribution, describe minority communities including in Ukraine, and distinguish Hungarian from neighbouring languages and from disputed origin theories.
A Uralic language of the Ugric branch spoken by about 13 million people, the official language of Hungary and a recognised minority language in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine and Austria, with dialects including the Szekely dialect of Transylvania and the archaic Csango of Moldavia, a history from Old Hungarian through the Modern Hungarian or Ujmagyar period since the 18th-century language reform, and a formal register used in official and literary contexts; Hungarian is agglutinative with vowel harmony and is unrelated to its Indo-European neighbours.
What it is for: Not applicable; a language.
It can be explain dialects and features; relay history and reform; describe status and minorities; distinguish from related and disputed claims.
Distinguishing features
Uralic isolate among neighbours
Agglutination and vowel harmony
Language reform
Cross-border minorities
What it looks like
Not a visible object; speech and text in Latin script with diacritics.
Physical character
speakers: about 13 million
cases: about 18 count - by most analyses
language reform: late 18th to early 19th century period - Kazinczy
Hungarians in Ukraine: about 150000 count - 2001 census
How it is recognised
Ugric language of Hungary
Szekely and Csango dialects, Ujmagyar, formal Hungarian, Hungarian in Ukraine, Hungarian dialects
Finnish and Estonian are distant Uralic relatives; neighbouring Slavic, Romanian and German are unrelated
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
belongs to - as its largest member
is the official language of - and an EU language
is contrasted with - a distant relative
In practice
Families and kinds
standard and formal Hungarian
dialect regions within Hungary
Szekely dialect of Transylvania
Csango dialects of Moldavia
Hungarian in Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia and Romania
Old, Middle and Modern Hungarian stages including Ujmagyar
Identifiers
ISO 639-1 hu Hungarian
ISO 639-3 hun Hungarian
Glottolog hung1274 Hungarian
Standards and regulation
Hungarian language laws and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences orthography
Minority language laws in neighbouring states, including contested Ukrainian education laws
EU official language status
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting fringe origin theories as linguistics
Partisan framing of minority language disputes
Confusing dialect and standard forms
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What Hungarian is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition and classification.
Definition
Definition.
- What is Hungarian, how is it classified within Uralic, and why is it unrelated to its neighbours, as linguists explain? definition
- Is the question about the language, a dialect, a minority community or an origin dispute? boundary
Dialects
Dialects and registers.
Dialects
Dialects.
- How do the Szekely and Csango dialects and formal Hungarian differ from the standard? definition
- Which entry fits the specific dialect? action
Learn Grammar and learning.
Practice.
Grammar
Grammar.
Grammar
Grammar.
- What are the main features of Hungarian vowel harmony, cases, possession and verb conjugation? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Resources
Learning resources.
Resources
Resources.
- What dictionaries, courses and corpora exist for Hungarian? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
History History.
Attribution.
Stages
Stages and reform.
Stages
Stages.
- How did Hungarian develop through Old, Middle and Modern stages, and what did the language reform of Kazinczy achieve? provenance
- Which entry fits Hungarian language reform? action
Origins
Origins and disputes.
Origins
Origins.
- What is the accepted Uralic origin of Hungarian, and what alternative theories are rejected by linguists, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation evidence-based? boundary
Context Status and minorities.
Context.
Minorities
Minority communities.
Minorities
Minorities.
- What is the situation of Hungarian speakers in Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia and Serbia, and what disputes exist, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Literature
Literature.
Literature
Literature.
- What are the major works of Hungarian literature? provenance
- Which entry fits Hungarian literature? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should Szekely, Csango and Hungarian in Ukraine be separate primary entries?
- How should linguistic sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming dialects, registers and a minority community; should they be split off?