Orbán cabinet upholds language rights of the Hungarians of Ukraine
Marking International Mother Language Day, the state secretary for Hungarian communities abroad declared that the government upholds their language rights, particularly in the case of the Hungarians of Transcarpathia, “the most difficult part of the nation”.
The government supports the education of young Hungarians abroad in their mother tongue from kindergarten to university, each year helping 300,000 children throughout the Carpathian Basin and the wider world, Lorinc Nacsa said in a video statement uploaded to Facebook on Friday.
He called Hungarian educational institutions abroad “the bastions of the survival of the Hungarian people”. “Our wonderful mother tongue … [must] live and flourish not only in one hundred, but in one thousand years, wherever Hungarians live,” he said. Nacsa noted that “five million of our compatriots live beyond the country’s borders”, adding that it was “a question of existence to be able to freely use their mother tongue and live their Hungarianness”.
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