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- Hungarian is the Western- most branch of the Uralic and Finno-Ugrian languages.It is principally spoken in the Carpathian Basin as the mother tongue of 10 million people in Hungary and by about 4 million people beyond the boundaries of Hungary in Slovakia, Austria, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. When King Stephen (1000-1038 AD) converted the Magyar people to Catholicism, records in runic writing were destroyed and the Latin script established. The oldest written record in Hungarian is a fragment in the Establishing charter of the Abbey of Tihany (1055). The Hungarian language reform in the first half of the nineteenth century enlarged the vocabulary, reformed the spelling and raised the language as the official language of Hungary in 1844. Now it is one of the twenty four official languages of the European Union. Hungary became a member of the European Union on May 1, 2004 after the Round-Table discussions in 1989 and after it adopted the trade policy requirements, regulations and conventions of the EU. Hungary has now a democracy with a powerful, critical media and with a multi-party system. Hungary is famous for its composers: Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, its philosophers and its film directors: Zoltan Fabri, Miklos Jancso, Bela Tarr and Marta Meszaros. The founder of Indian modernism, Amrita Shergil was half Hungarian. She was born in Budapest in 1913 and spent several years in Hungary. Hungary has a rich tradition of prose and poetry, and a number of works, the poems of Sandor Pet?fi, Endre Ady, Attila Jozsef, Janos Pilinszky, Gabor Garai, Ferenc Juhasz and Janos Hay,novels and short stories by Kalman Mikszath, Zsigmond Moricz, Dezs? Kosztolanyi, Sandor Marai, Peter Esterhazy and Margit Kaffka have been translated into Hindi and English. The works of Imre Kertesz (Nobel Prize Winner 2002) are also available in Hindi and English. The Balassi Institute in Budapest and in New Delhi supports the work of the Department with concerts, film shows and lectures on various fields of Hungarian literature, history, and culture. The Hungarian language was introduced in the University of Delhi in 1969. Studying the Hungarian courses offers students an opportunity to go to Hungary for long term courses in the Hungarian language and post-graduate studies in other subjects. Scope: Students of Hungarian language in Delhi University can pursue their research in the Departments of Comparative Study in Hungarian and Indian can languages and literatures, or Hungarian and Hungarian literature, work as tourist guides, or as language experts with various firms and companies for example Genpact or Oracle.
- Certificate in Hungarian Language
- Diploma in Hungarian Language
- Advanced Diploma in Hungarian Language
- Important Links for Hungrian Language
