Hungarian is the official language of Hungary and is spoken by 98% of the population. Hungarian, or Maygar, is considered to be one of the hardest languages in the world to learn. For one thing, the alphabet has 44 letters, including 14 vowels, and some of the characters counted as letters are actually made up of two or three letters! Hungarian is unlike any other European language which makes Hungary unique in that it is linguistically distinct from the countries it shares a border with. It is believed that the language comes from the Ularic region of Asia, belonging to the Finno-Ugric language group. This makes Hungary’s closest linguistic relatives would be Estonian and Finnish. However, over the years Slavic, Caucasian, German, Turkic and Latin words would have been incorporated. Recognised minority languages in the country include Armenian Bulgarian, Croation, German, Slovenian, Slovak and Romani, among others.