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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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