Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Norway
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Norway
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
hallo
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
god morgen
  
Please
Kérlek
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
viszlát
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
Not Available
  
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Norsk
  
French Name
hongrois
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Hungarian and Norwegian 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 Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Norwegian language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.