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Hungarian vs Sinhalese


Sinhalese vs Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia   
Sri Lanka   

Total No. Of Countries
5   
10
1   
14

National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine   
Sri Lanka   

Second Language
United States of America   
Sri Lanka   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)   
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)   

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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  

Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages   
Maldivian Language   

Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
40   
21
54   
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14   
11
18   
15

How Many Consonants
25   
15
36   
26

Scripts
Latin   
Sinhala alphabet   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
szia   
හලෝ (halō)   

Thank You
köszönöm   
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)   

How Are You?
Hogy vagy?   
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)   

Good Night
Jó Éjszakát   
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)   

Good Evening
jó Estét   
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)   

Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok   
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)   

Good Morning
jó Reggelt   
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)   

Please
Kérlek   
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)   

Sorry
bocsi   
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)   

Bye
viszlát   
බායි (bāyi)   

I Love You
Szeretlek   
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)   

Excuse Me
elnézést   
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó   
Vedda   

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania   
Sri Lanka   

Dialect 2
Oberwart   
Not Available   

Where They Speak
Austria   
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Székely   
Not Available   

Where They Speak
Székely Land   
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
11   
11
1   
1

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.19 %   
99+
0.25 %   
99+

Native Speakers
13.00 million   
99+
16.00 million   
39

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million   
38
2.00 million   
34

Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv   
සිංහල (sĩhala)   

Alternative Names
Magyar   
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala   

French Name
hongrois   
singhalais   

German Name
Ungarisch   
Singhalesisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Hungarians   
Sinhalese people   

History

Origin
1192 AD   
3   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Ugric   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Hungarian   
Sinhalese Prakrit   

Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian   
Modern Sinhalese   

Language Position
66   
99+
70   
99+

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
hu   
si   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hun   
sin   

ISO 639 2/B
hun   
sin   

ISO 639 3
hun   
sin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
hung1274   
sinh1246   

Linguasphere
ohu   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Fusional   

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Hungarian and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and Sinhalese language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. 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 Sinhalese Language History.

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

Hungarian vs Sinhalese Difficulty

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

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