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Hungarian Language Translation Services

An Accent on Accuracy

The highest quality translations, brisk turnaround schedules, competitive rates, and sharing of our knowledge, are all requisites for ALT's success. The complete and accurate translation of your company's communications is vital to your success. That's why ALT is obsessed with providing the best translators for YOUR project. High-quality translations are the product of a highly talented and experienced translation team with expertise in your industry. ALT puts all the pieces together to make it happen.

Why choose us for English to Hungarian or Hungarian to English Translation?

only native speakers to ensure quality and precision translations for your target audience. The ability to translate from/into Hungarian requires not only a strong knowledge of the Hungarian language, but also the diverse cultures of the Hungarian-speaking world, as well as an understanding of the target audience, purpose of the source text and technical aspects of written Hungarian.

When doing business in Hungarian, professional, human translation is a must. Do not expect to close a business deal or impress your clients with spotty software translation. Only through human translation, edited and customized to your target audience, can your meaning be honestly conveyed and your audience not be offended.

We are proud of our excellent reputation for reliable and high quality Hungarian to English and English to Hungarian translation services. We have assembled teams of translators from around the world, with an array of skills and specialties and can custom fit the knowledge and strengths of our teams to your specific projects. To demonstrate our commitment to quality and our dedication to our clients, we offer free consultations and provide an industry leading 180-day warranty on translation!

We provide quick and easy custom quotes for your Hungarian translation and localization needs.

Need to get the “gist” of Hungarian?

Although professional translation is highly recommended for any business, legal or sincere correspondence in Hungarian, sometimes it’s necessary to use machine translation (via software or the internet) to get the gist of an e-mail or web page. By no means is machine translation an acceptable substitute for professional translation—the technology is not there yet. But it is great for quickly getting the general idea of an article, e-mail, or web site.

Interesting Facts about the Hungarian Language

History of the Hungarian Language

Spoken Hungarian separated from its closest language relatives about 3000 years ago. It had influences of the Turkic languages between the fifth and ninth centuries and then later some Slavic influences. Then, with the establishment of the Kingdom of Hungary, Latin began to play a role in the development of the Hungarian language, as it important to this western-style Christian state.

The first bible translation into Hungarian is the Hussite Bible, which first appeared in the 1430s. Then, in the eighteenth century, a group of writers began to develop the Hungarian language to help express scientific concepts and expand the language for literary purposes. This language reform created over ten thousand words, and ultimately led to Hungarian becoming the official language (as opposed to Latin) in 1844.

Written Language

Hungarian uses the Latin-based alphabet with diacritical marks. Its orthography is for the most part phonetic. It includes several special characters: á, é, í, ó, ú, ö, ü, ő and ű. These last two letters have a special diacritical mark called the double acute accent, which is sometimes called the Hungarumlaut.

Hungarian Language Statistics

In terms of total number of speakers, it is the 57th most spoken language.
There are close to 118,000 speakers of Hungarian in the United States.

Translation Issues with Hungarian

Advanced Language Translation Inc has extensive experience with the in and outs of the Hungarian Language and we have a long and flawless record of success with complicated Hungarian translation projects.

There is very little dialectal variation in Hungarian, due to vigorous attempts at standardizing the language. This being the case, dialects do not cause a major issue in translation. However, for projects with audio components such as voice over, it is important to choose a voice over talent with the dialect or accent that is appropriate for the target audience.

Since Hungarian uses the extended Latin alphabet, there can be issues when displaying Hungarian on webpages, or in desktop publishing software (DTP) and word processors. Some applications, such as the US version of Quark Xpress or FrameMaker, do not support Latin 2 scripts. Special care is needed when typesetting Hungarian to ensure the proper display of characters.

Hyphenation is an issue with agglutinative languages, which must be considered to avoid ambiguity of longer words in Hungarian.

Hungarian Language Vital Information

Speaking Population:  14.5 Million
Where Spoken: Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Israel, US,       Slovenia, Canada, Austria
Writing Systems: Latin 2
Code Pages: ANSI - 1250
      Windows - Central and Eastern European
Unicode Supported: Yes
Common Phrases: (phonetic pronunciations in parentheses)
      Hungarian: Magyar (mah-dyahr)
      Hello: jó napot (yo na-put)
      Good-bye: viszontlát&aacutesra (vee-shon-tla-ta-shruh)
      Please: kérem (KI-rahm)
      Thank you: köszönöm (ku-su-num)
      English: angolul (ang-guhl-luhl)
      Yes: igen (ee-gen)
      No: nem (nem)