It is partially determined by the role a constituent plays in projecting certain information. Focus refers to the new key information being conveyed about the topic, that is, what it is that is being essentially said about the topic. In Hungarian, topics come first in a sentence and constituents in focus come immediately before the verb. High stress is associated with items in focus. The phonological system consists of a rich inventory of fourteen to fifteen vowels and of twenty-five consonants, four of which are affricates.
Stress is always on the first syllable.
Hungarian has borrowed prodigiously from other languages. There is an early loan set from Iranian and Turkic languages that were borrowed during the Hungarian migration. There are numerous loans from German, Italian, French, and English that entered the language after the arrival of Hungarians in Europe. Today, Hungary is a relatively homogeneous country linguistically speaking. National minorities include Germans, Romanians, Croats, Slovaks, Serbs, Slovenes, and some Gypsies, but none of their languages plays a significant role in Hungarian society.