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The Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Roman Alphabet . One sometimes speaks of the ''smaller'' and ''greater'' Hungarian alphabet, depending on whether the letters ''Q, W, X, Y'' which can only be found in foreign words and traditional orthography of names are listed, or not. The 44 letters of the (greater) Hungarian Alphabet are: Each sign shown above counts as a letter of its own right in Hungarian. :(i.e. they are not ''diacritic marks'' in the stricter sense of the word). Thus, the letter ''ó'' is not an O with acute accent, but a ''long ó'', and the letter ''ny'' is not an N and a Y, but rather the single letter ''NY''. While Long Vowels count as different letters, Long (or Geminate) Consonants don't. Long consonants are marked by duplication: e.g. <tt>, <gg>, <zz> (''ette'' 'he ate (det.obj.)', ''függ'' 'it hangs', ''azzal'' 'with it'). For the di- and tri-graphs a simplification rule applies: only the first letter is duplicated: e.g. <sz>+<sz>→<ssz> (''asszony'' 'woman'), <ty>+<ty>→<tty> (''hattyú'' 'swan'), <dzs>+<dzs>→<ddzs> (''briddzsel'' 'with bridge (card game)'). CAPITALISATION The di- and the trigraphs are capitalised in names and at the beginning of sentences or in abbreviations as it is shown above. When writing with all capital letters, one capitalises the second (and third) character as well. Thus ("The Rules of Hungarian Orthography", a book edited by the '' Hungarian Academy Of Sciences ''):
PRONUNCIATION One of Hungarian orthography's principles is being phonetic among with being ''traditional'', ''etymologic'' and ''simplifying''. The current edition of "MHSz" is the 11th from 1984, reprint 1994 with extended dictionary part. Therefore most words can be read out correctly, if one knows the pronunciation of the letters. The pronunciation of Hungarian letters in ''standard Hungarian''. (You might want to increase your browser's display font size to see the IPA symbols more correctly). The simplified geminates of multigraphs (see above) such as <nny>, <ssz> are Collated as <ny>+<ny>, <sz>+<sz> etc., ''if'' they are double geminates. könnyű Similar 'ambiguities', which can occur with Composite Word s (which are highly common in Hungarian) are dissolved and collated by sense.
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