|
Current Weather
in Hungary:
General: Hungary (Hungarian:
Magyarország; IPA: [mrorsag]; listen (help·info),
officially in English the Republic of Hungary
(Magyar Köztársaság listen
(help·info), literally Hungarian Republic),
is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered
by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia,
Croatia, and Slovenia.
Hungary has been a member
state of the European Union since May 1, 2004.
Currency: The forint
(currency code HUF) is the official currency of
Hungary. It is divided into 100 fillér,
although fillér coins have not been in
circulation since 1999.
Language: Hungarian
(magyar nyelv listen (help·info) is a Finno-Ugric
language, and more specifically a Ugric language,
unrelated to the other languages of Central Europe.
As one of the small number of modern European
languages which do not belong to the Indo-European
language family, it has always been of great interest
to linguists. It is spoken in Hungary and by the
Hungarian minorities in seven neighbouring countries.
The Hungarian name for the language is magyar
['mr].
There are about 13 million
native speakers, of whom 9.5-10 million live in
modern-day Hungary. Some two million speakers
live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of
Hungary before World War I. Of these, the largest
group live in Romania, where there are approximately
1.4 million Hungarians (see Hungarian minority
in Romania). Hungarian-speaking people are also
to be found in Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Croatia,
Austria, and Slovenia, as well as about a million
people scattered in other parts of the world (see
Geographic distribution).
|
