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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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