Countries
European Union, Finland
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
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 in
Finnish-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
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
  
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
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.