Hungarian is the native language of 12-13 million people. It’s official in Hungary, spoken by almost 10 million speakers and being present in Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Austria, Poland and in those countries where some Hungarian population lives such as the United States of America, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland etc.

The language belongs to the Uralic language family with Finno-Ugric roots. Today is one of the official languages of the European Union. It has a long history back in time, the modern form  dates back to the 16th century and since then went through a significant improvement. The most memorable one was the language revitalization in the 18th century made by Ferenc Kazinczy and a group of other writers.  Later on there was further standardization until it more or less got its present day form, but just like any modern language in the world it is continously changing. If you visit Hungary or the neighbouring countries you can hear several dialects too, which makes it even richer.

Since Hungarian is an agglutinating language full of compounds , its vocabulary is not easy to estimate.  The largest dictionaries from Hungarian to another languages contain approximately 120 000 words and phrases. However all the lexemes from historical, technical texts, dialects goes up to aproximately 1 million words.  Nowadays the active speakers use around 10 000-20 000 words.