Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Poland
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
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.
  
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
cześć
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
Kérlek
  
proszę
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
viszlát
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Poland
  
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
Not Available
  
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
hongrois
  
polonais
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Poles
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
1270
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Polish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
pols
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Hungarian and Polish 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 Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Polish language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Polish Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Polish 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 Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.