Hungarian is natively spoken by about 9.3 million people, primarily in Hungary and among Hungarian communities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, and Ukraine. It is essential to Hungarian cultural identity, known for its unique linguistic features and contributions to literature, folk music, and dance. Written in the Latin alphabet, Hungarian grammar features a free word order, extensive use of suffixes to indicate grammatical relationships, and vowel harmony.
Stats
Language Family: Uralic
Writing System: Latin
Writing System Type: Alphabet
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: N
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 18
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0
Number of Verb Tenses: 3
Word Order: Free
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 14
Number of Consonants: 27
Areas Where Spoken
Hungary (official) (84.6%) (8.16 mil)
Romania (6.3%) (1.20 mil)
Resources
Music
YouTube Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL79y7h6_M--ohwtOY7MNbquNi7c2tMRJ1
Websites
Hungarian Reference - Grammar
Magyar Leckék - Hungarian Lessons
Learn 101 - Grammar and vocab
Hey! Lingo - Vocab and phrases
Flash Cardo - Flashcards by topic
Hunglang's Blog - Grammar for beginners
Hu How? - Blog for beginners
Wikibooks - Basic grammar lessons
Let's Learn Hungarian - Audio lessons, resources and more
Book2 - Phrasebook course with audio
LanguageCourse.net - 5000 word vocabulary trainer
FSI Hungarian - Graded Reader with audio along with Basic Course
Dictionaries
Videos
Zhungarian - Video lessons (sort by oldest)
Learning Hungarian TV Show (full episodes)
HungarianPod101 - Short Audio & Video Lessons
TV
MédiaKlikk - TV and radio