The Slovene and Hungarian languages have been in contact for many centuries, which is attested by loanwords in both of them, especially in Hungarian, a language enriched by a number of Slovene words after the settlement of the Magyars in the Carpathian Basin. Over the centuries, Prekmurje Slovene (Prekmurian) has witnessed a number of changes and has developed from a regional dialect into a literary language. After the annexation of Prekmurje to Slovenia, Porabje Slovene (Porabian) kept its archaic form. After the admission of both Slovenia and Hungary to the European Union, new possibilities emerged for the Slovene language in Porabje and in the wider area. Among the Bologna study programmes, the Slovene BA and MA courses were both accredited in 2006 at the Faculty of Arts in Budapest. These are not only study courses, but also scholarly workshops for future translators, dictionary-writers, researchers of Slovene-Hungarian relationships, minority schooling and bilingualism in general.
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