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Chinese vs Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
5   
10
5   
10

National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
United States of America   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

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.
  
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  

Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
40   
21
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14   
11
24   
19

How Many Consonants
25   
15
23   
13

Scripts
Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
szia   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
köszönöm   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
Hogy vagy?   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
Jó Éjszakát   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
jó Estét   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
jó Reggelt   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
Kérlek   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
bocsi   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
viszlát   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
Szeretlek   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
elnézést   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
960,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 2
Oberwart   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Austria   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Székely   
Yue   

Where They Speak
Székely Land   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
11   
11
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million   
99+
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
0.19 %   
99+
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
13.00 million   
99+
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million   
38
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Magyar   
Not Available   

French Name
hongrois   
chinois   

German Name
Ungarisch   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Hungarians   
Han   

History

Origin
1192 AD   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Not Available   

Branch
Ugric   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Hungarian   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
66   
99+
1   
1

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
hu   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hun   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
hun   
chi   

ISO 639 3
hun   
zho   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
hung1274   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
ohu   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Analytic, Isolating   

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Hungarian and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and Chinese language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. 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 Hungarian and Chinese Language History.

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

Hungarian vs Chinese Difficulty

The Hungarian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Hungarian and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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