Why do Hungarians put their surname first?

Because the family name is an adjective, that, according to Hungarian grammatical rules, must precede the noun it modifies. English has the same rule, but follows the European, Latin model, except when the names need to be listed in alphabetical order, as in a directory.

Is Hungary a Slavic language?

Because it’s not a Slavic language. In fact, it’s not even an Indo European language, which means it’s not even distantly related to Slavic languages. It does have borrowed words from neighboring Slavic languages, but other than that, Hungarian is as similar to Polish or Russian as they are to Japanese or Swahili.

Is Hungarian related to other Slavic languages?

It is, in fact, completely unrelated to both the Slavic languages, but also every other Indo-European language spoken in Europe, rather, Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language. Except for some minor similarities in pronunciation, as well as some Slavic loan-words, the Hungarian language is completely different from Slavic languages.

Are Hungarians Finno-Ugric or Slavic?

Hungarians are Finno-Ugric in the same sense in which Poles are Slavic. The Finno-Ugric (in other languages, the order is reversed: we call them Ugrofinns in Czech) family of languages is exotic and most other European families don’t understand a word, not even “television”, of course.

What is the origin of the Hungarians?

Kingdom of Hungary founded in 1000ad. Most Likely after the Magyars converted to Christianity. Y-chromosomal of a vast majority of Hungarian males can still be traced to the Ural Mts. They may look Slavic (Cultural Term) Speak Slavic . Their ancestors were Magyars (800–900 AD) or even Hunnic (300–400ad).

Why did the Hungarians change from Slavs to Hungarians?

This may be because after Conquest of Hungary (895–896) the Hungarian rulers slowly changed the local population to Hungarians, which population was the same as the origin for other Slavic people (even they may have been mostly Slavs).