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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.
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. The term "old" refers to the historical priority of the script compared with ...
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.
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 new desk lexicon of the Hungarian language contains 75,000 words, [57] and the Comprehensive Dictionary of Hungarian Language (to be published in 18 volumes in the next [clarification needed] twenty years) is planned to contain 110,000 words. [58] The default Hungarian lexicon is usually estimated to comprise 60,000 to 100,000 words. [59]
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.
The vowel phonemes of Hungarian [13]. Hungarian has seven pairs of corresponding short and long vowels.Their phonetic values do not exactly match up with each other, so e represents /ɛ/ and é represents /eː/; likewise, a represents /ɒ/ while á represents /aː/. [14]
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]