Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Austria
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
bok
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Kérlek
  
molim
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
viszlát
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
hongrois
  
croate
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Croats
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Hungarian and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Croatian language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.