Hungarian stands out on the map of Europe: it is a Uralic language surrounded by Indo-European neighbours, related distantly to Finnish and Estonian rather than to German, Slavic or Romance tongues. Around 13 million people speak it, mostly in Hungary, with sizeable minorities in Romania's Transylvania region, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine. Hungarian is agglutinative, building long words from strings of suffixes, and uses vowel harmony, so suffixes change their vowels to match the word they attach to. It has roughly eighteen grammatical cases, depending on how one counts. The language is written in an extended Latin alphabet and has been official in the European Union since 2004. Speakers call it magyar. Its vocabulary preserves old Turkic, Slavic and German borrowings collected over a long history.
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