Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family. Linguistic connections between Hungarian and other Uralic languages were noticed in the 1670s, and the family itself (then called Finno-Ugric) was established in 1717.

Prehistory
Scholarly consensus
The traditional view holds that the Hungarian language diverged from its Ugric relatives

Hungarian has 14 vowel phonemes and 25 consonant phonemes. The vowel phonemes can be grouped as pairs of short and long vowels

Hungarian has a four-tiered system for expressing levels of politeness. From highest to lowest:
• Ön

Source: National censuses, Ethnologue
Hungarian has about 13 million native speakers, of whom more than 9.8 million live in Hungary. According to the 2011 Hungarian census, 9,896,333 people (99.6% of the total population) speak Hungarian, of whom

Hungarian is an agglutinative language. It uses various affixes, mainly suffixes but also some prefixes and a circumfix, to change a word's meaning and its grammatical function.
Vowel harmony
Hungarian uses

During the first early phase of Hungarian language reforms (late 18th and early 19th centuries) more than ten thousand words were coined, several