The Language Use of Hungarian Communities in Majority Contexts

Abstract

The present study summarises the findings of sociolinguistic research based on a questionnaire, and it discusses the situation of Hungarian as a community language in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The aim of the study is to investigate the language use of the communities in informal encounters and in the public sphere in order to provide valuable insight into the functions and status of the Hungarian language in the above-mentioned countries, which is an important facet of language maintenance.