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Hungarian and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
5  
10

National Language
Germany  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Africa, Europe  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Mansi and Khanty Languages  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
East and South Slavic Languages  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
40  
21

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
14  
11

How Many Consonants
9  
1
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
10
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
szia  

Thank You
Danke  
köszönöm  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Hogy vagy?  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
Jó Éjszakát  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
jó Estét  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
Jó Napot Kívánok  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
jó Reggelt  

Please
bitte  
Kérlek  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
bocsi  

Bye
Tschüs  
viszlát  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Szeretlek  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
elnézést  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Csángó  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Bacău County, Rumania  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
99+
13,000,000.00  
34

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Oberwart  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Austria  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
99+
13,000,000.00  
32

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Székely  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Székely Land  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
99+
13,000,000.00  
28

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
11  
11

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
13.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
13
0.19 %  
99+

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
13.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
0.07 million  
99+

Native Name
Deutsch  
magyar / magyar nyelv  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Magyar  

French Name
allemand  
hongrois  

German Name
Deutsch  
Ungarisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Hungarians  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
1192 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Western  
Ugric  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Hungarian  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Modern Hungarian  

Language Position
9  
9
66  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Hungarian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
hu  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
hun  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
hun  

ISO 639 3
deu  
hun  

ISO 639 6
deus  
hun  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
hung1274  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
ohu  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All German and Hungarian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Hungarian dialects. Various dialects of German and Hungarian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Hungarian Dialects are spoken in different Hungarian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Hungarian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Hungarian dialects include: Csángó , Oberwart. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Hungarian Speaking population

German and Hungarian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Hungarian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Hungarian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hungarian language is 0.19 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Hungarian on German vs Hungarian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Hungarian Language Codes

German and Hungarian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Hungarian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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