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Hungarian vs Croatian


Croatian vs Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
9  
7

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

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

Alphabets
40  
21
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
5  
2

How Many Consonants
25  
15
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
660,000.00  
31

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

Total No. Of Dialects
11  
11
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million  
99+
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
0.19 %  
99+
89.00 %  
1

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  

History

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  

Language Position
66  
99+
23  
19

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Hungarian and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and Croatian language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century. 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 Croatian Language History.

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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.

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