ORTA MACARCA DEVRİ’NDE (1526-1772) MACAR DİLİNİN GELİŞİMİ

The Middle Hungarian Period, which is one of the historical periods of the Hungarian language and called “középmagyar kor” in Hungarian literature, is a period of significant developments and changes in terms of the development of the Hungarian language. In this language period between 1526-1772, as the printing house began to publish in Hungarian language, printed resources in Hungarian were created in this period and with this printing technology, Hungarian texts had the opportunity to reach a wide audience. Especially with the influence of the Reformation, increased significant of the mother tongue and the first linguistic works, showing the rules and vocabulary of the Hungarian language, namely the first grammar books and comprehensive Hungarian dictionaries, came out in this period, and translations from foreign languages into Hungarian were carried out, Hungarian literature created its own written (printed) sources. With these works, the use of the Hungarian language became common, firstly in the religious and educational fields. As a reflection of time and the historical-cultural process, changes have occured especially in the representation of sounds in the written language and in the use of certain rules, and new loanwords have been added to the Hungarian vocabulary. In this study, in the base of Hungarian literature we tried to represent important Hungarian language sources that came out in the Middle Hungarian Period covering the period between 1526-1772.