Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
Kérlek
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
viszlát
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
22
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
Not Available
  
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
hongrois
  
coréen
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Koreans
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative