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Serbian and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia   

Second Language
Estonia   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Europe   

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland   
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Bosnian and Croatian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
30   
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
5   
2

How Many Consonants
13   
3
25   
15

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic, Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi   
Здраво (Zdravo)   

Thank You
Kiitos   
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Како си? (Kako si?)   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
Добро вече (Dobro veče)   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
Добар дан (Dobar dan)   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)   

Please
haluta   
Молим (Molim)   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)   

Bye
Heippa   
Довиђења (Doviđenja)   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
Волим те (Volim te)   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
Извините (Izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Prizren-Timok   

Where They Speak
Finland   
Southeastern Serbia   

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Smederevo–Vršac   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Serbia   

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Torlakian   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
1,500,000.00   
17

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million   
99+
8.70 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
8.70 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
Not Available   

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)   

Alternative Names
Suomi   
Montenegrin   

French Name
finnois   
serbe   

German Name
Finnisch   
Serbisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
[sr̩̂pskiː]   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Serbs   

History

Origin
1543   
11th Century   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Not Available   

Branch
Finnic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Standard Serbian   

Language Position
Not Available   
44   
33

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
sr   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
srp   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
srp   

ISO 639 3
fin   
srp   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
finn1318   
serb1264   

Linguasphere
No data available   
53-AAA-g   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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All Finnish and Serbian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Serbian Speaking population

Finnish and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Serbian on Finnish vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Serbian Language Codes

Finnish and Serbian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Serbian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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