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Hungarian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
2  
13

National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
United States of America  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

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.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
40  
21
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
8  
5

How Many Consonants
25  
15
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
szia  
Moi  

Thank You
köszönöm  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Hogy vagy?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
Jó Éjszakát  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
jó Estét  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
jó Reggelt  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
Kérlek  
haluta  

Sorry
bocsi  
Anteeksi  

Bye
viszlát  
Heippa  

I Love You
Szeretlek  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
elnézést  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania  
Finland  

Dialect 2
Oberwart  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Austria  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Székely  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Székely Land  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
11  
11
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.19 %  
99+
Not Available  

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million  
38
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Magyar  
Suomi  

French Name
hongrois  
finnois  

German Name
Ungarisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Hungarians  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
1192 AD  
1543  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Ugric  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Hungarian  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
66  
99+
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hu  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hun  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
hun  
fin  

ISO 639 3
hun  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
hung1274  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
ohu  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Hungarian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and Finnish language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. 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 Finnish Language History.

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

Hungarian vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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