Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
National Language
Russia
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Second Language
Afganistan
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Mansi and Khanty Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
East and South Slavic Languages
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
szia
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
köszönöm
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Hogy vagy?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Jó Éjszakát
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
jó Estét
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Jó Napot Kívánok
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
jó Reggelt
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Kérlek
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
bocsi
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
viszlát
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Szeretlek
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
elnézést
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Csángó
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bacău County, Rumania
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Oberwart
Where They Speak
Olonets
Austria
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Székely
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Székely Land
Native Name
Русский
magyar / magyar nyelv
Alternative Names
Russki
Magyar
French Name
russe
hongrois
German Name
Russisch
Ungarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
Ethnicity
Russians
Hungarians
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Hungarian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Hungarian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
hung1274
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
ohu
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Russian 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 Russian and Hungarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Hungarian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Hungarian word for "Thank You" is köszönöm. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Hungarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Hungarian Difficulty
The Russian vs Hungarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Hungarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Hungarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Hungarian time required is 44 weeks.