This book comprises 19 chapters that deal with Hungarian as a pluricentric language in language
and literature. It is the first comprehensive publication of its kind and It contains works on
both the linguistic and literary aspects of the pluricentricity of the Hungarian language. The
authors come from five countries: Hungary Romania Slovakia Slovenia and Ukraine. They give
an overview of the pluricentricity of Hungarian its identity function and the many effects of
the pluricentricity in terminology toponyms and family names as well as about problems in
language education. The pluricentricity of literary language and language contact is described
in detail. This book is the ninth volume published by the International Working Group on
non-dominant varie-ties of pluricentric languages.
