Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
szia
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
bocsi
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Austria
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Székely Land
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Magyar
  
French Name
kurde
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
ohu
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Kurdish and Hungarian 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 Kurdish and Hungarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Hungarian language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Hungarian word for "Thank You" is köszönöm. Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Hungarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Hungarian Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Hungarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Hungarian 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 Kurdish and Hungarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Hungarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Hungarian time required is 44 weeks.