Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
China, Guangdong
Second Language
United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
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Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
你好吗？
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
晚安
Good Evening
jó Estét
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
下午好
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
早上好
Dialect 1
Csángó
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Oberwart
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Austria
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Székely
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Székely Land
Hong Kong
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Magyar
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
hongrois
cantonais
German Name
Ungarisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Hungarians
Han Chinese
Origin
1192 AD
17th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Hungarian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
ISO 639 1
hu
No data available
ISO 639 3
hun
No data available
Glottocode
hung1274
cant1236
Linguasphere
ohu
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Hungarian and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Cantonese language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Hungarian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.