Languages of Hungary

Languages of Hungary
Official languages Hungarian
Minority languages German, Romanian
Main foreign languages English (16%)
German (11%)
Sign languages Hungarian Sign Language
Trilingual (Hungarian, Romanian, German) table in Gyula (meaning "social health insurance")

The languages spoken in Hungary are as follows.

Languages

Uralic languages
– Hungarian: The only official language of the country, unrelated to any of the neighbouring languages. It is the first language of some 98.9% of the total population.
Indo-European languages
– German: spoken by the German minority, especially in and around Mecsek Mountains, but also in other parts of the country. (Historically, the Swabian German dialect was spoken in Hungary.)
– Slovak: spoken by the Slovak minority, especially in the North Hungarian Mountains and around Békéscsaba.
– Serbian: spoken by the Serbian minority, especially in and around Bácska, but also on other territories of Southern Hungary.
– Slovene: spoken by the Slovene minority, especially around the Slovenian border, Western Hungary.
– Croatian: spoken by the Croatian minority, especially in Southern Hungary.
– Romanian: spoken by the Romanian minority, especially in and around Gyula, Eastern Hungary.
– Romani: spoken by some members of the Roma minority throughout the country.
Turkic languages
– Cuman: once spoken in Cumania region in Hungary. It is a Kipchak language closely related to other Kipchak languages like Crimean Tatar. The last speaker died in 1777.
– Kipchak: once spoken in Eastern Europe which includes Hungary. It is the lingua franca of the Golden Horde controlled areas. It is the ancestor of all Kipchak languages today, which also includes the extinct Cuman.
Sign languages
– Hungarian Sign Language: spoken by around 9,000 people. It belongs to French Sign Language family

Population by knowledge of languages

Language Number of speakers (2011)[1][2] Note
Hungarian 9,896,333 (99.6%) The only official language of Hungary. Of whom 9,827,875 people (98.9%) speak it as a first language, while 68,458 people (0.7%) speak it as a second language.
English 1,589,180 (16.0%) Foreign language
German 1,111,997 (11.2%) Foreign language and co-official minority language
Russian 158,497 (1.6%) Foreign language
Romanian 128,852 (1.3%) Foreign language and co-official minority language
French 117,121 (1.2%) Foreign language
Italian 80,837 (0.8%) Foreign language

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hungarian census 2011 / Országos adatok / 1.1.4.2. A népesség nyelvismeret és nemek szerint (population by spoken language), 1.1.6.1 A népesség anyanyelv, nemzetiség és nemek szerint (population by mother tongue and ethnicity) (Hungarian)
  2. ↑ Note: percentages do not add up to 100% as, according to the census, large proportion of Hungarians speak more than one language (native and a second language). Not all languages are shown.
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