Editing Hungarian language (section)

===Old Hungarian===
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The first written accounts of Hungarian date to the 10th century, such as mostly Hungarian personal names and place names in {{Lang|la|[[De Administrando Imperio]]}}, written in Greek by Eastern Roman Emperor [[Constantine VII]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tóth |first=Valéria |date=July 2016 |title=Etelköztől Tihanyig. A helynevek és a magyar őstörténet |trans-title=From Etelköz to Tihany. Place names and Hungarian prehistory |url=http://www.rubicon.hu/ma_files/2016_07_96.pdf |language=hu |journal=Rubicon |volume=27 |issue=7 |page=96 |issn=0865-6347 |access-date=May 29, 2020}}</ref> No significant texts written in [[Old Hungarian script]] have survived, because the medium of writing used at the time, wood, is perishable.

The [[Kingdom of Hungary]] was founded in 1000 by [[Stephen I of Hungary|Stephen I]]. The country became a [[Western culture|Western]]-styled Christian ([[Roman Catholic]]) state, with [[Latin script]] replacing [[Old Hungarian script|Hungarian runes]]. The earliest remaining fragments of the language are found in the [[establishing charter of the abbey of Tihany]] from 1055, intermingled with Latin text. The first extant text fully written in Hungarian is the [[Funeral Sermon and Prayer]], which dates to the 1190s. Although the [[orthography]] of these early texts differed considerably from that used today, contemporary Hungarians can still understand a great deal of the reconstructed spoken language, despite changes in grammar and vocabulary.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

A more extensive body of [[Hungarian literature]] arose after 1300. The earliest known example of Hungarian [[Christian poetry|religious poetry]] is the 14th-century ''[[Lamentations of Mary]]''. The first [[Bible translation]] was the [[Hussite Bible]] in the 1430s.<ref name="Kiss2014">{{Cite book |last= É. Kiss |first=Katalin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExRCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT76 |title=The Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-870985-5 |page=76}}</ref><ref name="KaplanBaldauf2005">{{cite book|author1=Robert B. Kaplan|author2=Richard B. Baldauf|title=Language Planning and Policy in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei6TGveKcuEC&pg=PA55|year=2005|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-811-1|page=55}}</ref>

The standard language lost its [[diphthong]]s, and several [[postposition]]s transformed into [[suffix]]es, including ''reá'' "onto" (the phrase ''utu '''rea''''' "onto the way" found in the 1055 text would later become ''út'''ra'''''). There were also changes in the system of [[vowel harmony]]. At one time, Hungarian used six [[verb]] [[Grammatical tense|tenses]], while today only two or three are used.<ref name="MathieuTruswell2017">{{Cite book |last1=Mathieu |first1=Eric |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCwpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 |title=Micro-Change and Macro-Change in Diachronic Syntax |last2=Truswell |first2=Robert |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-19-874784-0 |pages=66–}}</ref><ref group=note>The future is formed with an [[auxiliary verb]], and so is sometimes not counted as a separate tense. (See also: [[periphrasis]].)</ref>