Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
European Union, Finland
  
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 in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.