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Russian vs Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
4  
11

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

Second Language
United States of America  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

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

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.
  
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  

Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
40  
21
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
10  
7

How Many Consonants
25  
15
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

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
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
szia  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
köszönöm  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
Hogy vagy?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
Jó Éjszakát  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
jó Estét  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
jó Reggelt  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
Kérlek  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
bocsi  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
viszlát  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Szeretlek  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
elnézést  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Oberwart  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Austria  
Olonets  

Dialect 3
Székely  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Székely Land  
Novgorod  

Total No. Of Dialects
11  
11
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
0.19 %  
99+
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million  
38
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Magyar  
Russki  

French Name
hongrois  
russe  

German Name
Ungarisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Hungarians  
Russians  

History

Origin
1192 AD  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Slavic  

Branch
Ugric  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Hungarian  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
66  
99+
7  
7

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hu  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hun  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
hun  
rus  

ISO 639 3
hun  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
hung1274  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
ohu  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Hungarian and Russian Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and Russian language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 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 Russian Language History.

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

Hungarian vs Russian Difficulty

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

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