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Hungarian vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia   
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia   

Total No. Of Countries
9   
7
5   
10

National Language
Austria   
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
United States of America   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Africa, Europe   

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania   
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine   

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics   
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)   

Interesting Facts
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
  • 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
Serbain and Bosnian   
Mansi and Khanty Languages   

Derived From
Church Slavonic   
East and South Slavic Languages   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
30   
12
40   
21

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
14   
11

How Many Consonants
25   
15
25   
15

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
bok   
szia   

Thank You
hvala   
köszönöm   

How Are You?
kako si   
Hogy vagy?   

Good Night
laku noć   
Jó Éjszakát   

Good Evening
dobra večer   
jó Estét   

Good Afternoon
dobar dan   
Jó Napot Kívánok   

Good Morning
dobro jutro   
jó Reggelt   

Please
molim   
Kérlek   

Sorry
Oprostite   
bocsi   

Bye
Doviđenja   
viszlát   

I Love You
Volim te   
Szeretlek   

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se   
elnézést   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian   
Csángó   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
Bacău County, Rumania   

How Many People Speak
660,000.00   
31
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Chakavian   
Oberwart   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
Austria   

Dialect 3
Shtokavian   
Székely   

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania   
Székely Land   

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00   
5
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
79   
33
11   
11

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million   
18
13.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
89.00 %   
1
0.19 %   
99+

Native Speakers
5.60 million   
99+
13.00 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million   
36
0.07 million   
38

Native Name
hrvatski   
magyar / magyar nyelv   

Alternative Names
Hrvatski   
Magyar   

French Name
croate   
hongrois   

German Name
Kroatisch   
Ungarisch   

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]   
[ˈmɒɟɒr]   

Ethnicity
Croats   
Hungarians   

History

Origin
9th century   
1192 AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Ugric   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Hungarian   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian   
Modern Hungarian   

Language Position
23   
19
66   
99+

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
hr   
hu   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv   
hun   

ISO 639 2/B
hrv   
hun   

ISO 639 3
hrv   
hun   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
croa1245   
hung1274   

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g   
ohu   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Croatian and Hungarian Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Hungarian language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Hungarian language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century whereas history of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Croatian and Hungarian Language History.

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Croatian 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 Croatian and Hungarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Hungarian language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Hungarian word for "Thank You" is köszönöm. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Hungarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Croatian vs Hungarian Difficulty

The Croatian vs Hungarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian 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 Croatian and Hungarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Hungarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Hungarian time required is 44 weeks.

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