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The term “Hungarian Language” refers to the family of languages spoken in Hungary, which are related to other East Slavic languages. The Hungarian language has approximately 79 million native speakers. It also has the largest number of any language with at least five million second-language speakers, according to Ethnologue. This means that around 10% of the world's population speaks it as a first or second language. There are many theories that attempt to explain the origins of the Hungarian language. The most common theory is that it developed from Ugric languages, who were among the first tribal communities to settle in Hungary. Based on this, it has been claimed that the Hungarian language was originally spoken in Central Asia because the background of its vocabulary is “closer to Turkic than to Finno-Ugric” (Leslie, p. 11). Some paleolinguists claim that there is written evidence for this theory in Turkic Tatar and Yakut epics (Taylor, pg. 18). Others, however, claim that evidence suggests that the Hungarian language is more closely related to Finno-Ugric languages. This theory is supported by the “obvious Finno-Ugric character of Hungarian tribal names” (Taylor, pg. 15). This includes studies done on placenames in Hungary, vocabulary shared between Hungarian and other Finno-Ugric languages, and similarities within Hungarian phonetics (Taylor, pg. 15). “Since there are no demonstrable traces of Finno-Ugric influence in the Hungarian phonetic system, Finno-Ugric influence is most likely to have been at a very early stage.” (Taylor, pg. 15). This linguistic analysis may indicate that Finno-Ugric tribes arrived in Hungary as early as the fourth millennium BCE (Taylor, pg. 15). However, Hungarians could not have spoken Finno-Ugric languages because those tribes spoke Uralic languages (Taylor, pg. 15). The current Hungarian language was founded as a dialect of the proto-Hungarian language around 1000 CE (Taylor, pg. 15). However, because of the vast history and geographical area covered by the Hungarian language it contains many other dialects and forms of the language. For example, within modern Hungary there are approximately 20 dialects and four forms of spoken Hungarian: Magyar (majority), Szekler (minority group), Slovak and Romanian. The wide variety of vocabulary used across Hungary is another aspect that makes Hungarian unique among world languages. eccc085e13
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