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Sinhalese vs Hungarian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia  
Sri Lanka  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
1  
14

National Language
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine  
Sri Lanka  

Second Language
United States of America  
Sri Lanka  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe  
Asia  

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)  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)  

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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  

Similar To
Mansi and Khanty Languages  
Maldivian Language  

Derived From
East and South Slavic Languages  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
40  
21
54  
33

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
18  
15

How Many Consonants
25  
15
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Sinhala alphabet  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
szia  
හලෝ (halō)  

Thank You
köszönöm  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)  

How Are You?
Hogy vagy?  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)  

Good Night
Jó Éjszakát  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)  

Good Evening
jó Estét  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)  

Good Afternoon
Jó Napot Kívánok  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)  

Good Morning
jó Reggelt  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)  

Please
Kérlek  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)  

Sorry
bocsi  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)  

Bye
viszlát  
බායි (bāyi)  

I Love You
Szeretlek  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)  

Excuse Me
elnézést  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Csángó  
Vedda  

Where They Speak
Bacău County, Rumania  
Sri Lanka  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
34
19,000,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Oberwart  
Sri Lankan Sinhala  

Where They Speak
Austria  
-  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
32
19,000,000.00  
27

Dialect 3
Székely  
Up-Country Sinhalese  

Where They Speak
Székely Land  
-  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
28
16,000,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
11  
11
1  
1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million  
99+
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.19 %  
99+
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
16.00 million  
39

Second Language Speakers
0.07 million  
99+
2.00 million  
99+

Native Name
magyar / magyar nyelv  
සිංහල (sĩhala)  

Alternative Names
Magyar  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala  

French Name
hongrois  
singhalais  

German Name
Ungarisch  
Singhalesisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmɒɟɒr]  
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]  

Ethnicity
Hungarians  
Sinhalese people  

History

Origin
1192 AD  
3  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Ugric  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Hungarian  
Sinhalese Prakrit  

Standard Forms
Modern Hungarian  
Modern Sinhalese  

Language Position
66  
99+
70  
99+

Signed Forms
Hungarian Sign Language  
Signed Sinhalese  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hu  
si  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hun  
sin  

ISO 639 2/B
hun  
sin  

ISO 639 3
hun  
sin  

ISO 639 6
hun  
sin  

Glottocode
hung1274  
sinh1246  

Linguasphere
ohu  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Fusional  

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Hungarian and Sinhalese Language History

Comparison of Hungarian vs Sinhalese language history gives us differences between origin of Hungarian and Sinhalese language. History of Hungarian language states that this language originated in 1192 AD whereas history of Sinhalese language states that this language originated in 3. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Hungarian and Sinhalese Language History.

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Hungarian and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hungarian and Sinhalese language. Hungarian word for "Hello" is szia or Sinhalese word for "Thank You" is ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi). Find more of such common Hungarian Greetings and Sinhalese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Hungarian vs Sinhalese Difficulty

The Hungarian vs Sinhalese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hungarian Alphabets and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hungarian and Sinhalese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hungarian is 44 weeks while to learn Sinhalese time required is 44 weeks.

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