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Croatian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
2  
13

National Language
Austria  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
  • 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
Serbain and Bosnian  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
25  
15
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
bok  
Moi  

Thank You
hvala  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
kako si  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
laku noć  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
molim  
haluta  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Anteeksi  

Bye
Doviđenja  
Heippa  

I Love You
Volim te  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
5
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
36
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
hrvatski  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Suomi  

French Name
croate  
finnois  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Croats  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
9th century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Not Available  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
23  
19
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
fin  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
croa1245  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Croatian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Finnish language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century 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 Croatian and Finnish Language History.

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

Croatian vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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