Promotion of Multilingualism and Preservation of the Hungarian Language in the Cyberspace

Abstract

Globalization will cause 50-90% of the spoken languages to disappear in the next 100 years. This paper gives a report about the Hungarian language, which is also a minority language and many speakers of the Hungarian language are in bilingual and multilingual situation. Preserving the Hungarian language and culture in the multilingual world requires a special language policy. New factors will be added to the UNESCO’s Major Evaluative Factors of Language Vitality, and the actions taken in Hungary to promote multilingualism and preserve the Hungarian language will be described. Special emphasis will be given to the multilingual cyberspace.