what do hungarian people speak?
Hungarian
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 Hungarian society experienced fundamental changes in many fields ( including animal husbandry , agriculture and religion ) in the centuries following the " Land @-@ taking " . These changes are reflected in the significant number of terms borrowed from local Slavs . About 20 % of the Hungarian vocabulary is of Slavic origin , including the Hungarian words for sheep @-@ pen ( akol ) , yoke ( iga ) and horseshoe ( patkó ) . Similarly , the Hungarian name of vegetables , fruits and other cultivated plants , as well as many Hungarian terms connected to agriculture are Slavic loanwords , including káposzta ( " cabbage " ) , szilva ( " plum " ) , zab ( " oats " ) , széna ( " hay " ) and kasza ( " scythe " ) . 

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 The Hungarians were mentioned under various ethnic names in Arabic , Byzantine , Slavic , and Western European sources in the 9th and 10th centuries . Arabic scholars referred to them as Magyars , Bashkirs , or Turks ; Byzantine authors mentioned them as Huns , Ungrs , Turks , or Savards ; Slavic sources used the ethnonyms Ugr or Peon , and Western European authors wrote of Hungrs , Pannons , Avars , Huns , Turks , and Agaren . According to the linguist Gyula Németh , the multiple ethnonyms – especially Ungr , Savard , and Turk – reflect that the Magyars had been integrated in various empires of the Eurasian steppes – the tribal confederations of the Onogurs and of the Sabirs , and the Turkic Khaganate – before gaining their independence . 

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 The development of the Hungarian language started around 800 BC with the withdrawal of the grasslands and the parallel southward migration of the nomadic Ugric groups . The history of the ancient Magyars during the next thousand years is uncertain ; they lived in the steppes but the location of their Urheimat is subject to scholarly debates . According to one theory , they initially lived east of the Urals and migrated west to " Magna Hungaria " by 600 AD at the latest . Other scholars say Magna Hungaria was the Magyars ' original homeland , from where they moved either to the region of the Don River or towards the Kuban River before the 830s AD . Hundreds of loan words adopted from Chuvash @-@ type Turkic languages prove the Magyars were closely connected to Turkic peoples . Byzantine and Muslim authors regarded them as a Turkic people in the 9th and 10th centuries . 

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 In 2005 and 2007 , Czech was spoken by about 10 million residents of the Czech Republic . A Eurobarometer survey conducted from January to March 2012 found that the first language of 98 percent of Czech citizens was Czech , the third @-@ highest in the European Union ( behind Greece and Hungary ) . 

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 The Hungarians themselves initially preserved the memory of the major events in " the form of folk songs and ballads " ( C. A. Macartney ) . The earliest local chronicle was compiled in the late 11th century . It exists now in more than one variant , its original version several times extended and rewritten during the Middle Ages . For instance , the 14th @-@ century Illuminated Chronicle contains texts from the 11th @-@ century chronicle . 
