Hungarian

Hungarian is the Ugric tongue of the Uralic family, which split from Mansi and Khanty in the first half of the first millennium BC and drifted west. Contact with Iranian peoples and Oghur Bulgars between the fifth and ninth centuries gave it loanwords.

The Magyars entered the Carpathian Basin in 895, and after Stephen I founded the Christian kingdom in 1000 the old runic alphabet gave way to Latin letters. The Tihany charter of 1055 preserves the first Hungarian phrases, the Funeral Sermon of the 1190s is the earliest complete text, and literature grew after 1300, followed by the Hussite Bible of the 1430s and the first printed Hungarian book in 1533.

Slavic and German words kept entering the language, joined by Turkish ones under Ottoman rule after 1541, and by the seventeenth century Hungarian had nearly its settled form.