Editing Hungarian language (section)

==Geographic distribution==
[[File:Hungarian language in Transylvania.svg|thumb|upright=1.36|Areas of [[Transylvania]], in Romania, where Hungarian has co-official status (areas in which at least 20% of the population is Hungarian)]]

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!Country!!Speakers!!Notes
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|[[Hungary]]||align="right"| 9,896,333 ||2011<ref name="Hungarian census">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ksh.hu/nepszamlalas/tablak_teruleti_00 |title=Országos adatok |publisher=Central Statistics Office |language=hu |trans-title=National data |access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Romania]] <small>(mainly [[Transylvania]])</small>||align="right"| 1,038,806 ||2021<ref name="Székelyhon">{{cite web |title=Mintha városok ürültek volna ki |trans-title=As if cities had been emptied |url=https://szekelyhon.ro/aktualis/csikszek/szekelyfoldon-is-fogy-a-nepesseg |last=Széchely |first=István |website=Székelyhon |language=hu |date=3 January 2023 |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref>
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|[[Slovakia]]||align="right"|422,065|| 2021<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/slovakia-ethnic-loc2021.htm |title=Number of population by mother tongue in the Slovak Republic at 1. 1. 2021 |website=SODB2021 – The 2021 Population and Housing Census |publisher=Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
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|[[Serbia]] <small>(mainly [[Vojvodina]])</small>||align="right"|241,164|| 2011<ref>Stojšin, S. (2015). Ethnic Diversity of Population in Vojvodina at the Beginning of the 21st Century. European Quarterly
of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 4(2), 25-37. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-428644</ref>
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|[[Germany]]||align="right"|217,000
|2023<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statistische Berichte |url=https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Migration-Integration/Publikationen/_publikationen-innen-statistische-berichte.html |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=Statistisches Bundesamt |language=de}}</ref>
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|[[Ukraine]] <small>(mainly [[Zakarpattia Oblast|Zakarpattia]])</small>||align="right"|149,400 ||2001<ref>[http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/language/ Ukrainian census 2001]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820175518/http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/language/ |date=August 20, 2010 }}.</ref>
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|[[United States]]||align="right"|117,973 ||2000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP16&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U|title=American FactFinder - Results|publisher=United States Census Bureau|website=factfinder.census.gov|access-date=8 October 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212214529/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP16&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U|archive-date=12 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[Canada]]||align="right"|75,555 ||2001<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55670&APATH=3&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55430&THEME=41&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=0&GK=0&VID=0&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0|title=File Not Found|website=12.statcan.ca|access-date=8 October 2017|archive-date=13 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213074431/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55670&APATH=3&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55430&THEME=41&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=0&GK=0&VID=0&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[Israel]]||align="right"|70,000||
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|[[Austria]] <small>(historical minorities</small> <small>in [[Burgenland]])</small>
| align="right" |40,583||2001<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2001 |title=Bevölkerung nach Umgangssprache und Staatsangehörigkeit |url=http://www.statistik.at/gz/umgangssprache1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050512113957/http://www.statistik.at/gz/umgangssprache1.pdf |archive-date=2005-05-12 |access-date=2018-06-06 |website=Statistik Oesterreich}}</ref>
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|[[Australia]]||align="right"|20,883||2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/censusexplorer/|title=SBS Census Explorer|website=Sbs.com.au|access-date=8 October 2017|archive-date=7 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207012947/http://www.sbs.com.au/censusexplorer/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[Croatia]]||align="right"|16,500||
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|[[Slovenia]] <small>(mainly [[Prekmurje]])</small>||align="right"|9,240||
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!Total||12–13 million||
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:''Source: National censuses, [[Ethnologue]]''

Hungarian has about 13 million<ref name=Ethnologue>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/hun|title=Hungarian|website=Ethnologue.com|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpNOCLJImNkC&pg=PA9 |title=Hungarian Practical Dictionary: Hungarian-English, English-Hungarian |last=Szabó |first=Éva |date=2005 |publisher=Hippocrene Books |location=New York |pages=9 |language=en|isbn=9780781810685 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ox89vJtDfMYC&pg=PA1 |title=Hungarian-English/English-Hungarian: Dictionary & Phrasebook |last=Ward |first=Judit Hajnal |date=2002 |publisher=Hippocrene Books |pages=1|isbn=9780781809191 }}</ref> native speakers, of whom more than 9.8 million live in Hungary. According to the 2011 Hungarian census, 9,896,333 people (99.6% of the total population) speak Hungarian, of whom 9,827,875 people (98.9%) speak it as a first language, while 68,458 people (0.7%) speak it as a [[second language]].<ref name="Hungarian census" /> About 2.2 million speakers live in other areas that were part of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] before the [[Treaty of Trianon]] (1920). Of these, the largest group lives in [[Transylvania]], the western half of present-day [[Romania]], where there are approximately 1.25 million [[Hungarians in Romania|Hungarians]]. There are large Hungarian communities also in [[Hungarians in Slovakia|Slovakia]], [[Hungarians in Vojvodina|Serbia]] and [[Hungarians in Ukraine|Ukraine]], and Hungarians can also be found in [[Austria]], [[Croatia]], and [[Slovenia]], as well as about a million additional people scattered in other parts of the world. For example, there are more than one hundred thousand Hungarian speakers in the [[Hungarian American]] community and 1.5 million with Hungarian ancestry<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=U.S. Census website|publisher=United States Census Bureau|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref> in the [[United States]].

===Official status===
[[File:Vojvodina hungarian map.png|thumb|upright=1.36|Official usage of Hungarian language in Vojvodina, Serbia]]
Hungarian is the [[official language]] of Hungary, and thus an official language of the European Union. Hungarian is also one of the official languages of [[Serbia]]n province of [[Vojvodina]] and an official language of three municipalities in [[Slovenia]]: [[Hodoš]], [[Dobrovnik]] and [[Lendava]], along with [[Slovene language|Slovene]]. Hungarian is officially recognized as a [[minority language|minority]] or [[regional language]] in [[Austria]], [[Croatia]], [[Romania]], [[Zakarpattia Oblast|Zakarpattia]] in [[Ukraine]], and [[Slovakia]]. In [[Romania]] it is a recognized minority language used at local level in communes, towns and municipalities with an ethnic Hungarian population of over 20%.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1096369.html |title=Romania: Law Allows Use Of Minority Languages In Public Administration |newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=9 April 2008 |language=en |access-date=2018-10-30|last1=Tomiuc |first1=Eugen }}</ref>

===Dialects===
{{main|Hungarian dialects}}
The [[dialects]] of Hungarian identified by [[Ethnologue]] are: Alföld, West Danube, Danube-Tisza, King's Pass Hungarian, Northeast Hungarian, Northwest Hungarian, Székely and West Hungarian. These dialects are, for the most part, [[mutually intelligible]]. The Hungarian [[Csángó]] dialect, which is mentioned but not listed separately by Ethnologue, is spoken primarily in [[Bacău County]] in eastern Romania. The Csángó Hungarian group has been largely isolated from other [[Hungarian people]], and therefore preserved features that closely resemble earlier forms of Hungarian.