All 44 Hungarian letters with the nine accented vowels on their own keys, ő and ű included, plus „ ” quotation marks and the Ft sign.
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Arabicالعربية
Amazighⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Amharicአማርኛ
ArmenianՀայերեն
Assameseঅসমীয়া
BelarusianБеларуская
Bengaliবাংলা
BulgarianБългарски
Burmeseမြန်မာဘာသာ
Chinese中文
CzechČeština
DanishDansk
Dhivehiދިވެހި
Egyptian Hieroglyphs𓂀
FilipinoWikang Filipino
FrenchFrançais
Georgianქართული
GermanDeutsch
GreekΕλληνικά
Gujaratiગુજરાતી
HausaHarshen Hausa
Hebrewעברית
Hindiहिन्दी
HungarianMagyar
IgboAsụsụ Igbo
IrishGaeilge
Japanese日本語
Kannadaಕನ್ನಡ
KazakhҚазақша
Khmerភាសាខ្មែរ
Korean한국어
Kurdishکوردی
Laoພາສາລາວ
MacedonianМакедонски
Malayalamമലയാളം
Marathiमराठी
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MongolianМонгол
Nepaliनेपाली
NorwegianNorsk
Odiaଓଡ଼ିଆ
Pashtoپښتو
Persianفارسی
PolishPolski
PortuguesePortuguês
Punjabiਪੰਜਾਬੀ
RussianРусский
SerbianСрпски
Sindhiسنڌي
Sinhalaසිංහල
SomaliSoomaali
SwedishSvenska
Tamilதமிழ்
Teluguతెలుగు
Thaiภาษาไทย
Tigrinyaትግርኛ
TurkishTürkçe
UkrainianУкраїнська
Urduاردو
Uyghurئۇيغۇرچە
VietnameseTiếng Việt
YorubaYorùbá
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Hungarian was first written in a script of its own. The Old Hungarian script, now called rovásírás from the verb róni, “to score”, is thought to derive from Old Turkic writing, ran from right to left on sticks and walls, and had 42 letters. When Stephen I made Hungary a Christian kingdom in about the year 1000, the Latin alphabet became the official script. The first Hungarian words on parchment sit inside the Latin founding charter of the abbey of Tihany, dated 1055. The first connected text, the Funeral Sermon and Prayer, was copied onto folio 154a of the Pray Codex between 1192 and 1195: 227 words of sermon and 47 of prayer. It is also the oldest known text in any Uralic language, and it has been kept at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest since 1813. The Hungarian Academy set the first spelling rules in 1832, and the rules in force today are the 12th edition, from 2015. In the 19th-century language reform led by Ferenc Kazinczy, writers coined more than ten thousand words that are still in use. The result is an alphabet of 44 letters: the 26 Latin letters, five letters with an acute accent, ö and ü, ő and ű with a double acute, eight two-letter letters and one three-letter letter, dzs. The old script came back in June 2015, when Unicode 8.0 gave it a block of its own.
ő and ű wear an accent named after Hungarian. Hungarian marks a long vowel with an accent, and for ö and ü the long form takes two strokes: ő and ű, the double acute that typographers call the “Hungarumlaut”. Length changes meaning: tör means “breaks” and tőr means “dagger”; örült means “was glad” and őrült means “mad”. Long consonants are written by doubling, but only the first letter of a digraph doubles: sz + sz is ssz and gy + gy is ggy. At a line break the full letters return, so meggyes (cherry-flavoured) splits as megy-gyes.
Hungarian has a long history of losing its accents in transit. In March 2003 Index.hu reported that on Nokia, Motorola, Siemens and Sharp phones a text message with Hungarian accented letters shrank from 160 characters to 70 and split into several paid messages, a problem affecting at least 50,000 Hungarian users. On the web, the Central European code page ISO 8859-2 placed ő and ű where the Western ISO 8859-1 has õ and û, so a page read with the wrong table shows a tilde or a hat. The physical keyboard has its own habits. The official layout is QWERTZ, and the 0 sits to the left of 1 so that the accented letters can be grouped on the right. On ISO keyboards í has its own key next to the left Shift; on 101-key keyboards without it, the Windows Hungarian QWERTY layout puts í on the 0 key and moves 0 to AltGr. The ű key is left of Enter on some keyboards and left of Backspace on others. Hungarian is written well beyond Hungary, where the 2011 census counted 9,896,333 speakers, 99.6% of the population. Romania’s 2021 census counted 1,038,806 people with Hungarian as their mother tongue, and Slovakia’s 2021 census 462,175. This keyboard puts all nine accented vowels on screen, with „ ” quotation marks and the Ft sign in the Special popup.
Two Strokes for a Long Vowel
ő and ű are the long forms of ö and ü. Their double acute accent is so tied to Hungarian that typographers call it the Hungarumlaut.
44 letters9 accented vowelső ű double acutetest phrase since 1989
Short or long
One stroke more, another word
öőüű
The two dots of ö and ü mark a short vowel; the two strokes of ő and ű mark the same vowel held longer. Swapping them changes the word.
Faklen Pál, deputy editor of Delta-Impulzus, wrote this phrase to test new fonts. It holds all nine accented vowels, upper and lower case, and Windows 98 used it as its Hungarian font sample.
The Central European code page ISO 8859-2 put ő and ű on the slots where the Western one, ISO 8859-1, has õ and û. Text read with the wrong table shows a tilde or a hat instead.
őrült, not õrült
Long consonants
Only the first letter doubles
sszggytty
A long sz is written ssz, not szsz, and a long gy is ggy. When the word breaks at a line end, both full letters come back.
meggyes (cherry-flavoured) → megy-gyes
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
44: the 26 Latin letters, five letters with an acute accent (á é í ó ú), ö and ü, ő and ű with a double acute, eight two-letter letters (cs dz gy ly ny sz ty zs) and one three-letter letter, dzs. Q, w, x and y appear on their own only in family names and foreign words.
ö is short and ő is the same vowel held longer; ü and ű work the same way. The two strokes on ő and ű are the double acute, which typographers call the Hungarumlaut. Length changes the word: tör means “breaks”, tőr means “dagger”.
The text went through the wrong code page. ISO 8859-2, the Central European table, put ő and ű on the slots where the Western ISO 8859-1 has õ and û. Text typed here is Unicode, so ő and ű arrive as themselves.
Because Hungarian writes the “sh” sound with s and the “s” sound with sz. So szia (hi) starts with an English s sound. Likewise cs is “ch” as in check, zs is the s of pleasure, and c is “ts” as in pots.
They are soft consonants. gy is a soft d, close to the d of “during”; ty is a soft t, close to the t of “tube”; ny is the ny of “canyon”. Each counts as one letter of the alphabet.
In standard Hungarian today both stand for the same sound, the y of “yes”. The spelling keeps ly by tradition, so which one a word uses has to be learned word by word.
Double only the first letter: ssz, ggy, tty, nny, lly, ccs, zzs. When the word breaks at a line end, both full letters return: meggyes (cherry-flavoured) becomes megy-gyes. In compounds both full letters stay, as in kulcscsomó (bunch of keys).
Yes, both are among the 44 letters. dz sounds like the ds in “kids” and is uncommon; dzs is the j of “John” and appears mostly in loanwords.
So that the accented letters can sit together on the right side of the keyboard. The official Hungarian layout is QWERTZ, and almost everyone in Hungary now uses it.
On ISO keyboards í is next to the left Shift. On 101-key keyboards that lack that key, the Windows Hungarian QWERTY layout puts í on the 0 key and moves 0 to AltGr. ű is left of Enter on some keyboards and left of Backspace on others.
A test phrase that contains all nine Hungarian accented vowels. Faklen Pál, deputy editor of Delta-Impulzus, made it up in spring 1989 to test new fonts; it spread through FidoNet and Windows 98 used it as its Hungarian font sample.
The Funeral Sermon and Prayer, copied into the Pray Codex between 1192 and 1195. It has 227 words of sermon and 47 of prayer, and it is the oldest known text in any Uralic language. It has been in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest since 1813.
The Old Hungarian script, written from right to left and thought to derive from Old Turkic writing. Its alphabet had 42 letters. Unicode added it in version 8.0 in June 2015, and some towns, such as Vonyarcvashegy, put it on their welcome signs. This keyboard types Hungarian in Latin letters.
Hungarian always uses Eastern name order, family name then given name: Molnár Ferenc. A traditional married name adds -né to the husband’s full name, so Szendrey Júlia, wife of Petőfi Sándor, became Petőfi Sándorné.
„ to open and ” to close, with » and « for a quote inside a quote. All four are in the Special popup.
It is a Uralic language of the Ugric branch. Its closest relatives are Mansi and Khanty, spoken in western Siberia.
In 2003 Index.hu reported that on many phones a message with Hungarian accented letters dropped from 160 to 70 characters and was split into several messages, each one billed.
Every Hungarian first name has its own day in the calendar. On it, friends call or text “Boldog névnapot!” (Happy name day!) and small gifts like flowers or chocolates are common.
Arabicالعربية
Amazighⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Amharicአማርኛ
ArmenianՀայերեն
Assameseঅসমীয়া
BelarusianБеларуская
Bengaliবাংলা
BulgarianБългарски
Burmeseမြန်မာဘာသာ
Chinese中文
CzechČeština
DanishDansk
Dhivehiދިވެހި
Egyptian Hieroglyphs𓂀
FilipinoWikang Filipino
FrenchFrançais
Georgianქართული
GermanDeutsch
GreekΕλληνικά
HausaHarshen Hausa
Hebrewעברית
HungarianMagyar
IrishGaeilge
Japanese日本語
Kannadaಕನ್ನಡ
KazakhҚазақша
Khmerភាសាខ្មែរ
Korean한국어
Kurdishکوردی
Laoພາສາລາວ
MacedonianМакедонски
MongolianМонгол
Nepaliनेपाली
NorwegianNorsk
Pashtoپښتو
Persianفارسی
PolishPolski
PortuguesePortuguês
RussianРусский
SerbianСрпски
Sindhiسنڌي
Sinhalaසිංහල
SomaliSoomaali
SwedishSvenska
Thaiภาษาไทย
Tigrinyaትግርኛ
TurkishTürkçe
UkrainianУкраїнська
Uyghurئۇيغۇرچە
VietnameseTiếng Việt
