Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
Moi
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
haluta
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
tschao
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Not Available
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Suomi
  
French Name
amharique
  
finnois
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
13th century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Amharic 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 Amharic and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Finnish language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Finnish Difficulty
The Amharic vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic 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 Amharic and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.