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Hungarian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  

Second Language
Estonia  
United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Africa, Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  

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

Interesting Facts
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
  • 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Mansi and Khanty Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
East and South Slavic Languages  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
40  
21

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
14  
11

How Many Consonants
13  
3
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
szia  

Thank You
Kiitos  
köszönöm  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Hogy vagy?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Jó Éjszakát  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
jó Estét  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Jó Napot Kívánok  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
jó Reggelt  

Please
haluta  
Kérlek  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
bocsi  

Bye
Heippa  
viszlát  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Szeretlek  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
elnézést  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Csángó  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Bacău County, Rumania  

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Oberwart  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Austria  

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Székely  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Székely Land  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
11  
11

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
13.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.19 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
13.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
0.07 million  
38

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
magyar / magyar nyelv  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Magyar  

French Name
finnois  
hongrois  

German Name
Finnisch  
Ungarisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Hungarians  

History

Origin
1543  
1192 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Finnic  
Ugric  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Old Hungarian  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Modern Hungarian  

Language Position
Not Available  
66  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
hu  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
hun  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
hun  

ISO 639 3
fin  
hun  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
hung1274  

Linguasphere
No data available  
ohu  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Finnish and Hungarian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Hungarian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Hungarian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 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 Finnish and Hungarian Language History.

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

Finnish vs Hungarian Difficulty

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

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