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The Hungarian alphabet (Hungarian: magyar ábécé, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈaːbeːt͡seː]) is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Hungarian language. The alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet , with several added variations of letters, consisting 44 letters.
Hungarian orthography (Hungarian: helyesírás, lit. 'correct writing') consists of rules defining the standard written form of the Hungarian language.It includes the spelling of lexical words, proper nouns and foreign words in themselves, with suffixes, and in compounds, as well as the hyphenation of words, punctuation, abbreviations, collation (alphabetical ordering), and other information ...
The Old Hungarian script or Hungarian runes (Hungarian: Székely-magyar rovás, 'székely-magyar runiform', or rovásírás) is an alphabetic writing system used for writing the Hungarian language. Modern Hungarian is written using the Latin-based Hungarian alphabet .
Sz is the thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet.It represents /s/ and is called "esz" /ɛs/.Thus, names like Liszt are pronounced /list/ list.. In Hungarian, even if two characters are put together to make a different sound, they are considered one letter (a true digraph), and even acronyms keep the letter intact.
In Hungarian, the double acute is thought of as the letter having both an umlaut and an acute accent. Standard Hungarian has 14 vowels in a symmetrical system: seven short vowels (a, e, i, o, ö, u, ü) and seven long ones, which are written with an acute accent in the case of á, é, í, ó, ú, and with the double acute in the case of ő, ű.
Dz is the seventh letter of the Hungarian alphabet. It is called dzé (IPA:) as a letter of the alphabet, where it represents the voiced alveolar affricate phoneme /dz/. Dz and dzs were recognized as individual letters in the 11th edition of Hungarian orthography (1984). [6]
Old Hungarian is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Old Hungarian alphabet, an obsolete script which was used to write Hungarian during the medieval period. Old Hungarian [1] [2]
In Hungarian, even if two characters are put together to make a different sound, they are considered one letter, and even acronyms keep the letter intact. The combination lj (considered two separate letters, L and J) is also common in Hungarian and is even pronounced [ʎ] by many speakers.