Anyanyelv és jogi írásbeliség a középkori Magyarországon
Native Tongue and Legal Literacy in Medieval Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The medieval Kingdom of Hungary had been a multilingual, ethnically heterogeneous country right from the start. It was not only the linguistic diversity of the ecclesiastical society or the royal court that was quite natural, but also the fact that the inhabitants of the country used different native tongues. Whereas there existed as many spoken languages as there were native tongues, literacy, after the adoption of Latin Christianity, was dominated by one learned language, namely Latin. // The present study examines the problem of when, to what extent, and with regard to what languages the multilingual nature of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was reflected in the charters, that is, in legal literacy.

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