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Arabic vs Finnish


Finnish vs Arabic


Countries

Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
23  
4
2  
13

National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
  • 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
Amharic and Hebrew  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
28  
10
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
8  
5

How Many Consonants
28  
18
13  
3

Scripts
Arabic  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
مرحبا  
Moi  

Thank You
شكرا  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
كيف حالك؟  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
تصبح على خير  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
مساء الخير  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
مساء الخير  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
صباح الخير  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
من فضلك  
haluta  

Sorry
آسف  
Anteeksi  

Bye
وداعا  
Heippa  

I Love You
أحبك  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
اعذرني  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Maghrebi  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia  
Finland  

Dialect 2
Sudanese  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Sudan  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00  
6
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Levantine  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
3
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
26  
22
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
452.00 million  
4
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
4.43 %  
6
Not Available  

Native Speakers
206.00 million  
6
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
246.00 million  
2
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic  
Suomi  

French Name
arabe  
finnois  

German Name
Arabisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Arabs  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
512 CE  
1543  

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Semitic  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
North Arabic  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
25  
21
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed Arabic  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ar  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ara  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
ara  
fin  

ISO 639 3
ara  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
arab1395  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
12-AAC  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Arabic and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Arabic vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Arabic and Finnish language. History of Arabic language states that this language originated in 512 CE whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. 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 Arabic and Finnish Language History.

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Arabic 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 Arabic and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Finnish language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Arabic vs Finnish Difficulty

The Arabic vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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