Hungarian Translation & Hungarian Interpretation Services

Hungarian language

Providing Professional Translation, Interpretation and Localization services in Hungarian and more than 300 other languages and dialects.

Autonym(s)

magyar nyelv

Number of Speakers

Native Speakers: 14 million

Geographic Distribution

Hungary, and areas of Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovaki, Slovenia, and Western Ukraine

Official or Recognized Status

Hungary

Classification

Uralic, Ugric

Features

Known for its agglutinative structure—words are formed by stringing together multiple suffixes to indicate tense, possession, number, and case. The language has 18 grammatical cases, allowing it to express complex relationships without relying heavily on word order or prepositions. Vowel harmony is a central phonological feature, requiring suffix vowels to match the frontness or backness of the root vowel. Hungarian has no grammatical gender and uses definite and indefinite conjugation depending on the specificity of the object. Its flexible word order emphasizes information structure rather than fixed syntax, and its vocabulary and grammar are markedly different from neighboring Indo-European languages.

Dialects

Hungarian has relatively few dialects compared to other European languages, and the differences among them are generally minor, with all speakers able to understand one another easily. The main dialect groups include Western, Central (or Transdanubian), Northern, Southern, and Eastern varieties, with additional regional variations found in areas outside Hungary, such as Transylvania (Romania), Slovakia, Serbia (Vojvodina), and Ukraine. These dialects may differ slightly in pronunciation, vocabulary, and intonation, but standard Hungarian—based on the Budapest dialect—is widely used in education, media, and official communication, helping to maintain a high degree of mutual intelligibility across regions.

Writing System

Latin script (Hungarian alphabet)

U.S. Distribution

In the United States, Hungarian is considered a heritage language primarily spoken by descendants of Hungarian immigrants. According to U.S. Census data, approximately 85,000 to 100,000 people report Hungarian ancestry, and around 25,000 to 30,000 people speak Hungarian at home. The language is most commonly found in regions with historically significant Hungarian communities, including parts of Ohio (especially Cleveland), New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Although the number of native speakers has declined over generations, Hungarian is still maintained within some immigrant families, cultural organizations, and religious communities, particularly among older generations and recent émigrés.

At Latitude Prime, we offer Hungarian translation, Hungarian interpretation, and Hungarian localization services in numerous specialized subject areas and multiple dialects. Whether you need to translate legal documents from Hungarian into English for immigration purposes, need a Hungarian interpreter for a business meeting in Budapest, or want to localize your website into Hungarian to market your products or services in Hungary, Latitude Prime has the customized language solution to meet all your Hungarian language needs.

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