Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
European Union, Finland
  
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 in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
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
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.