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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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