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Hungarian vs Serbian


Serbian vs Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia   

Total No. Of Countries
5   
10
4   
11

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

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

Alphabets
40   
21
30   
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14   
11
5   
2

How Many Consonants
25   
15
25   
15

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic, Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
11   
11
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million   
99+
8.70 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.19 %   
99+
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   

History

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   

Language Position
66   
99+
44   
33

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Hungarian and Serbian Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and Serbian language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century. 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 Serbian Language History.

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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.

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