Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Germany
Second Language
United States of America
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
Hogy vagy?
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Jó Éjszakát
gute Nacht
Good Evening
jó Estét
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok
guten Tag
Good Morning
jó Reggelt
guten Morgen
I Love You
Szeretlek
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
elnézést
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Csángó
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Oberwart
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Austria
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Székely
Texas German
Where They Speak
Székely Land
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Magyar
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
hongrois
allemand
German Name
Ungarisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Hungarians
Germans
Origin
1192 AD
6th Century AD
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Germanic
Early Forms
Old Hungarian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
hung1274
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
ohu
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Hungarian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and German language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hungarian vs German Difficulty
The Hungarian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.