Countries
South Africa
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
szia
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
asseblief
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
jammer
  
bocsi
  
Bye
Not Available
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Austria
  
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Székely Land
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Magyar
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
17th Century
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Western
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
ohu
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Afrikaans and Hungarian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Hungarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Hungarian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Hungarian word for "Thank You" is köszönöm. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Hungarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Hungarian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Hungarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Hungarian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Hungarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Hungarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Hungarian time required is 44 weeks.