On a whim, I want to learn Hungarian
What interesting aspects of Hungarian are worth learning?
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Good question, it’s like looking for a partner: there are many reasons, some even absurd, or hard to articulate, but in short it’s love at first sight.
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Because the mountain is there
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Letters and Their Pronunciation
Letters
44 letters
- a
- á
- b
- c
- cs
- d
- dz
- dzs
- e
- é
- f
- g
- gy
- h
- i
- í
- j
- k
- l
- ly
- m
- n
- ny
- o
- ó
- ö
- ő
- p
q- r
- s
- sz
- t
- ty
- u
- ú
- ü
- ű
- v
wxy- z
- zs
It has 9 more vowel letters than the basic Latin alphabet:
- á
- é
- í
- ó / ö / ő
- ú / ü / ű
as well as 8 digraphs and 1 trigraph.
- cs
- dz / dzs
- gy
- ly
- ny
- sz
- ty
- zs
Removing the y from the old spelling and the rare q, w, and x leaves 40 commonly used letters.
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Why not study Swedish to benefit Northern Europe, learning Hungarian is meaningless
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I haven’t considered settling, I just want to learn more about foreign customs, at most just to travel.
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Posted a “De Gaulle” sticky post
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Update! I really feel it’s necessary to record what I learn. Over the past few years I’ve been learning Japanese intermittently with an app; it’s not a short period, but I always feel unclear about what I’ve actually learned. orz
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You can record it in the diary building
I want to see
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I’ve learned too little recently, I’m doing my best!
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These days I have no idea what to write. Well, so today I share something.
These days I don’t know what’s good to update, so today I’ll share something.
Babies actually start learning their mother tongue while still in the womb; this is reflected in their cries, for example: French babies’ cries are rising in pitch, while German babies’ cries are falling in pitch. See Mampe et al. 2009.
The biggest problem I encountered when learning German is that I can’t control myself from using a rising intonation instead of a falling one. The senior German majors always think my pronunciation is weird and it’s hard to correct, but after practicing the falling intonation it became much more normal.
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Reminds me, I haven’t studied French for almost a month 
Sometimes I feel that if there were on‑campus courses, the academic pressure would force me to study, which would be good.
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Why am I still unable to tell the difference between Entry and Comment? 
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Just don’t use a blog, once and for all ()
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Letters and Their Pronunciation
Letters
44 letters
- a
- á
- b
- c
- cs
- d
- dz
- dzs
- e
- é
- f
- g
- gy
- h
- i
- í
- j
- k
- l
- ly
- m
- n
- ny
- o
- ó
- ö
- ő
- p
q- r
- s
- sz
- t
- ty
- u
- ú
- ü
- ű
- v
wxy- z
- zs
It has 9 more vowel letters than the basic Latin alphabet:
- á
- é
- í
- ó / ö / ő
- ú / ü / ű
and 8 digraphs and 1 trigraph.
- cs
- dz / dzs
- gy
- ly
- ny
- sz
- ty
- zs
Removing the old spelling’s y and the rare q, w, and x leaves 40 commonly used letters.
Pronunciation
Consonants
Hungarian consonant table| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Hard palate | Soft palate | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ny /ɲ/ | |||||||||
| Plosive | p /p/ | b /b/ | t /t/ | d /d/ | ty /c͡ç/ | gy /ɟ͡ʝ/ | k /k/ | g /ɡ/ | ||||
| Affricate | c /t͡s/ | dz /d͡z/ | cs /t͡ʃ/ | dzs /d͡ʒ/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | f /f/ | v /v/ | s /s/ | z /z/ | sh /ʃ/ | zs /ʒ/ | h /h/ | |||||
| Trill | r /r/ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | l /l/ | j /j/ | ||||||||||
Vowels
Hungarian vowel table
| Front vowels | Back vowels | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
| Close vowels |
i /i/ í /iː/ |
ü /y/ ű /yː/ |
u /u/ ú /uː/ |
|
| Near-close vowels |
ë /e/ é /eː/ |
ö /ø/ ő /øː/ |
o /o/ ó /oː/ |
|
| Near-open vowels | e /ɛ/ | |||
| Open vowels | á /aː/ | a /ɒ/ | ||
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The spreadsheet is hard to edit; I’ll do less of it in the future.
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Long consonants
Like Italian and other languages, Hungarian also has long consonants, which are generally written doubled according to orthography, for example:
- szeretem
- szerettem
In digraphs, double the first letter:
- visza
- vissza
and also
- lányal
- lánnyal
However, there are exceptions to the orthography, such as these consonants before the letter j that are pronounced long:
- d
- gy
- t
- ty
- n
- ny
- (l)
Voicing and devoicing of consonants
Additionally, consonant letters can be memorized as follows:
| Voiceless | Voiced |
|---|---|
| p | b |
| t | d |
| k | g |
| f | v |
| sz | z |
| s | zs |
| c | ds |
| cs | dzs |
| ty | gy |
- 9 pairs of voiceless‑voiced oppositions (the last pair appears at the word end)
- 7 voiced consonants:
- j
- l
- ly
- m
- n
- ny
- r
- 1 voiceless: h
- Voicing condition: the first 8 voiceless consonant letters of the 9 pairs + a voiced consonant (excluding the 7 unpaired voiced consonants or v)
- Devoicing condition: a voiced consonant letter (excluding the 7 unpaired voiced consonants) + a voiceless consonant
Merging of fricatives
| Alveolar fricative | Post‑alveolar fricative | New post‑alveolar fricative |
|---|---|---|
| sz | s | ss |
| z | s | ss |
| sz | zs | zzs |
| z | zs | zzs |
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So hardcore, I can’t understand 
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These were typed while I was reading the textbook. So I didn’t give much thought to readability, and I’ll later revise them into study notes.
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