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The Hungarian language is member of the Finno-Ugric branch of languages; however, the set of the basic Hungarian words contains more than 300 Turkic words.
The Hungarian language is spoken by 10 million people in Hungary and about 5-6 million people outside of Hungary.
==Linguistic periods of the Hungarian language==
The Hungarian linguistics uses the following system:
*'''Ancient Hungarian Period''' (1000 BC-896)
*'''Old Hungarian Period''' (896-1526)
*'''Middle Hungarian Period''' (1526-1772)
*'''New Hungarian Period''' (1772-1920)
*'''Latest Hungarian Period''' (1920-present-day)
==Orthography==
The official script is the Hungarian Latin based script, it is shortly called as '''Hungarian alphabet'''.
Moreover, there are two historical scripts, which are used for presenting the Hungarian language:
* [[Szekely-Hungarian Rovas]]
* [[Carpathian Basin Rovas]]
== Notes ==
<references>
[[Category:Writing systems]][[Category:Alphabets]]