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Hungarian vs German


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Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
7  
8

National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Germany  

Second Language
United States of America  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

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

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
40  
21
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
9  
1

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

Hello
szia  
hallo  

Thank You
köszönöm  
Danke  

How Are You?
Hogy vagy?  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
Jó Éjszakát  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
jó Estét  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
jó Reggelt  
guten Morgen  

Please
Kérlek  
bitte  

Sorry
bocsi  
Verzeihung  

Bye
viszlát  
Tschüs  

I Love You
Szeretlek  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
elnézést  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
Oberwart  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Austria  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Székely  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Székely Land  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
11  
11
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million  
99+
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
0.19 %  
99+
1.39 %  
12

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million  
38
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Magyar  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
hongrois  
allemand  

German Name
Ungarisch  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
Hungarians  
Germans  

History

Origin
1192 AD  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Germanic  

Branch
Ugric  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Hungarian  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
66  
99+
9  
9

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hu  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hun  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
hun  
ger  

ISO 639 3
hun  
deu  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
deus  

Glottocode
hung1274  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
ohu  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Hungarian and German Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and German language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. 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 German Language History.

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

Hungarian vs German Difficulty

The Hungarian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.

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