Countries
Armenian Highland
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  
- 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
Greek
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Not Applicable
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Not Applicable
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
  
Suomi
  
French Name
arménien
  
finnois
  
German Name
Armenisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Armenians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
late 5th century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hy
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hye
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
arm
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
hye
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arme1241
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Armenian 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 Armenian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Armenian and Finnish language. Armenian word for "Hello" is Բարեւ (Barev) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Armenian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Armenian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Armenian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Armenian 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 Armenian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Armenian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Armenian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.