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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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