Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
Kérlek
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
viszlát
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
Not Available
  
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
hongrois
  
serbe
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Serbs
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Hungarian and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Serbian language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Serbian Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Serbian 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 Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.