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Countries

Countries

European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

52
0 46
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National Language

Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Latvia

Second Language

United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Europe
Europe

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)
Latvian State Language Center

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.
  • The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
  • The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.

Similar To

Mansi and Khanty Languages
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

East and South Slavic Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4033
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

149
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2524
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

szia
Sveiki

Thank You

köszönöm
Paldies

How Are You?

Hogy vagy?
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

Jó Éjszakát
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

jó Estét
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

Jó Napot Kívánok
Labdien

Good Morning

jó Reggelt
Labrīt

Please

Kérlek
lūdzu

Sorry

bocsi
Piedodiet!

Bye

viszlát
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

Szeretlek
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

elnézést
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Csángó
Livonian

Where They Speak

Bacău County, Rumania
Latvia

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Oberwart
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Austria
Latvia

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Székely
High Latvian

Where They Speak

Székely Land
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

113
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.19 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.07 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

magyar / magyar nyelv
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Magyar
Lettish

French Name

hongrois
letton

German Name

Ungarisch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

[ˈmɒɟɒr]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Hungarians
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

1192 AD
1530

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Baltic

Branch

Ugric
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Hungarian
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Hungarian
Latvian

Language Position

669
1 120
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Signed Forms

Hungarian Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

hu
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hun
lav

ISO 639 2/B

hun
lav

ISO 639 3

hun
lav

ISO 639 6

hun
lav

Glottocode

hung1274
latv1249

Linguasphere

ohu
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic

Hungarian and Latvian Alphabets

Hungarian and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Hungarian and Latvian. In Hungarian Alphabets there are 40 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Hungarian and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Hungarian and Latvian languages. The Hungarian phonology consist Hungarian vowels and Hungarian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Hungarian greetings vs Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Hungarian and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Hungarian and Latvian 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 Hungarian and Latvian dialects. Various dialects of Hungarian and Latvian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Hungarian are spoken in different Hungarian Speaking Countries whereas Latvian Dialects are spoken in different Latvian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Hungarian vs Latvian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Hungarian dialects include: Csángó, Oberwart. Latvian dialects include: Livonian , Middle Latvian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Hungarian and Latvian Speaking population

Hungarian and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hungarian and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Hungarian and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hungarian language is 0.19 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 %. 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 Hungarian and Latvian on Hungarian vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Hungarian and Latvian Language Codes

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