Total population | |
---|---|
3,000 [1] | |
Languages | |
Uruguayan Spanish, Hungarian | |
Religion | |
Christianity (mostly Roman Catholic and Protestant), Judaism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Hungarian people, Hungarian diaspora |
Hungarian Uruguayans ( Hungarian: Uruguayi magyarok) are people born in Hungary who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Hungarian descent.
Hungarian Uruguayans are a local ethnic minority; their presence is small but meaningful, numbering around 2,000-3,000 of which ca. 150 were born in Hungary. [2]
In 1925 was established a Society of Hungarian-Language Workers in Uruguay [3] They even had some influence within the Communist Party of Uruguay. [3]
In 1936, Hungarian migrants established the Hungarian Home of Uruguay ( Hungarian: Uruguayi Magyar Otthon), an ethnic association. [4]
There is also a small Jewish-Hungarian community, [5] they established their own association in the 1920s, [6] which in turn sent their representative to the Uruguayan Central Israeli Committee. [7]
There is an immigrant branch of the Batthyány noble family. [8] [9]