Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
szia
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
köszönöm
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
jó Estét
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
  
günaydın
  
Please
Kérlek
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
bocsi
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
viszlát
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Szeretlek
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
elnézést
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Csángó
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Oberwart
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Austria
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Székely
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Székely Land
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
0.07 million
  
38
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Magyar
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
hongrois
  
turc
  
German Name
Ungarisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Hungarians
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1192 AD
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Ugric
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hu
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hun
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
hun
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
hun
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hung1274
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
ohu
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Hungarian and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Turkish language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Turkish Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.