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