Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Africa
  
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)
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
Habari
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
Kérlek
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
pole
  
Bye
viszlát
  
bye
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
Not Available
  
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
hongrois
  
swahili
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Swahili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Hungarian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Swahili language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.