magyarul

Magyarul is the Hungarian adverb meaning “in Hungarian” and is commonly used to refer to the Hungarian language in Hungarian speech. The language is usually called magyar nyelv in its own tongue. It is a member of the Uralic language family, within the Finno-Ugric branch, and is not related to the Indo-European languages that surround it in Central Europe. It is the official language of Hungary and is spoken by Hungarian communities in neighboring countries and by diaspora communities around the world. Estimates of total speakers typically range in the tens of millions.

Hungarian uses the Latin alphabet with diacritics and digraphs. The standard orthography, codified during the 18th–19th century language reform, employs 44 letters, including digraphs such as cs, dzs, gy, ly, ny, sz, ty, and zs. Vowel length and frontness are marked with diacritics (á, é, í, ó, ú, ö, ü, ő, ű). The script reflects both native phonology and loanwords from many languages, notably German and Turkish.

Grammatically, Hungarian is agglutinative and uses extensive suffixation to express grammatical relations, verb aspect, mood, and case. It features vowel harmony and a rich system of suffixes for possessive, plural, and definite versus indefinite conjugation. The language has a large case system (commonly described as 18 grammatical cases) and relatively free word order, with the verb typically near the center of the sentence but rearranged to emphasize topic or focus. Dialects exist across regions, including varieties in Hungary and among Székely and other Hungarian-speaking communities.