Native Name: Magyar
Number of Speakers: 13 million
Official language of: Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Austria
Script used: Latin (Variation)
HUNGARIAN translation and typesetting example by Adelphi Translations Ltd
Hungarian Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. work translating Hungarian to English and English to Hungarian. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Hungarian as well as translation and localisation of web sites into Hungarian. We are based in Sheffield, UK and handle language projects for local clients in commercial centres such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London but also have many International clients from around the world.
romani hungarian and serbian typesetting for Amnesty International by Adelphi translations
Sample of Hungarian
Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language distantly related to Finnish, Estonian and a number of other minority languages spoken in the Baltic states and northern European Russia eastward into central Siberia. Like Finnish it is an agglutinative language and contains some very long words such as megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért, which is often considered to be the longest word in Hungarian and can be translated as “for your repeated pretending to be indesecrable”. Hungarian is a highly inflected language in which nouns can have up to 238 possible forms.
Hungarian contains many words of Turkic origin. A certain number may have been borrowed by Hungarians from different Turkic people (Cumans, Pechenegs, Oghuz tribes)when in contact while migrating westward on the steppes, as Lajos Ligeti, a great Turkologist-Orientalist pointed out, but the origin of the largest proportion of these words can not be explained by borrowing. These words probably originated much earlier from an ancient language (Oghur Turkic) that was spoken mostly in the western part of the steppes in the early middle ages. Today only the Chuvash people in Russia speak a language belonging to this group. These words also show a general affinity to the so called Eastern-Turkic languages (see the Altaic language families) spoken in certain parts of Central-Asia, such as Kirghiz, Kazakh, and Uyghur, the language of the largest minority of China living on both sides of the Tien-Shan. These similarities clearly indicate a possible Turkic relationship of Hungarian.
