The institute is responsible for providing university-level education in various fields and branches of Hungarian linguistics, applied linguistics, and Finno-Ugric languages and cultures at all academic levels, as well as conducting diverse scientific research. Tasks related to the study of individual subdisciplines are carried out through a division of labor among the institute’s four departments and through cross-departmental collaboration.

Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics

Department of Finno-Ugric Studies

Department of Hungarian Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Department of Modern Hungarian Linguistics

Our institute continues the work of teaching the Hungarian language at the university level, which was first initiated at our university (since 1791); our Finno-Ugric Department is the world’s oldest department specializing in Finno-Ugric studies (since 1872). Thanks to the institute’s traditions, resources, professional activities, and its faculty and students, the teaching, research, and training of the next generation in these fields remain a defining force in higher education to this day.