Hungarian alphabet

The Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Roman alphabet.

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One sometimes speaks of the smaller and greater Hungarian alphabet, depending on whether the letters Q, W, X, Y which can only be found in foreign words and traditional orthography of names are listed, or not.

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The 44 letters of the (greater) Hungarian alphabet are:

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Hungarian - Alphabet

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Each sign shown above counts as a letter of its own right in Hungarian.

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:(i.e. they are not diacritic marks in the stricter sense of the word). Thus, the letter ó is not an O with acute accent, but a long ó, and the letter ny is not an N and a Y, but rather the single letter NY.

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While long vowels count as different letters, long (or geminate) consonants don't. Long consonants are marked by duplication: e.g. <tt>, <gg>, <zz> (ette 'he ate (det.obj.)', függ 'it hangs', azzal 'with it'). For the di- and tri-graphs a simplification rule applies: only the first letter is duplicated: e.g.

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Long vowels - Long (or geminate) consonants

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<sz>+<sz>?<ssz> (asszony 'woman'),

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<ty>+<ty>?<tty> (hattyú 'swan'),

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<dzs>+<dzs>?<ddzs> (briddzsel 'with bridge (card game)').

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