Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Suomi
  
French Name
albanais
  
finnois
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Albanian and Finnish 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 Albanian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Albanian and Finnish language. Albanian word for "Hello" is Përshëndetje or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Albanian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Albanian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Albanian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Albanian Alphabets and Finnish 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 Albanian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Albanian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Albanian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.