The Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview (BSI) is a large-scale project aiming to gather reliable data on the Hungarian spoken language in Budapest through tape recorded interviews carried out on a representative sample of the inhabitants of Budapest.

• Click here  for the data of a complete sample interview.

• Pintzuk, Susan, Miklós Kontra, Klára Sándor & Anna Borbély:The Effect of the Typewriter on Hungarian Reading Style
• Kontra, Miklós & Tamás Váradi: The Budapest Szociolinguistic Interview: Version 3.
• Váradi, Tamás: From Cards to computer files: Processing the data of The Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview.
• Váradi, Tamás: Manual of The Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview data.

Hungarian version