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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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