Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
سلام
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Kérlek
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
متاسف
  
Bye
viszlát
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
Not Available
  
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
hongrois
  
persan
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Persian people
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic