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Name: Old Hungarian Type: Language Alternate Name: Altungarisch Code: ohu Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed) Parent Subgroup: Ugric; ugrische Hauptgruppe; ost-finnisch-ugrische Sprachen; Ugrisch; CORE; Proto-Ugric; ugrische Sprachen; ugrische Sprachgemeinschaft; Ugrian; ougrien; ugrischer Sprachzweig (ugri) Child Language: Hungarian; Magyar; magyar; vengr; Ungarisch; Neuungarisch; hongrois; mad'ar; vengri; Magyarisch; unkarin kieli; vengerskij jazyk; Ungarische Tzeckler (hun) Brief Description: The language of the Magyars who, under their leader Árpád, invaded and settled Hungary, c.895. It was also the language of the early Hungarian state which they founded. Until the 11th century AD it was written in a runic script (called the Rovás) which is related to that of the oldest Turkic writing. Most Old Hungarian texts in this script were destroyed when King István (Stephen) converted to Christianity in the early 11th century A.D., and the Roman alphabet was introduced. The earliest extant Hungarian documents in the Roman alphabet go back to the 13th cent. and are the oldest texts of a Uralic language. Late 9th century – 15th century

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Linguist List Status: Extinct