Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
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.
  
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Romanian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Përshëndetje
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Ju faleminderit
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Si jeni?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
natën e mirë
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
mirëmbrëma
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
mirëdita
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
mirëmengjes
  
Please
haluta
  
Ju lutem
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Me fal
  
Bye
Heippa
  
mirupafshim
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
unë e dua ju
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Më falni
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Gheg Albanian
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Tosk Albanian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
20
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Arbëresh
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
7.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
3.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
3.60 million
  
31
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
finnois
  
albanais
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Albanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ʃcip]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Albanians
  
Origin
1543
  
1462 AD
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Albanian
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Standard Albanian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
sq
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
alb
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
alba1267
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
55-AAA-aaa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Finnish and Albanian 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 Finnish and Albanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Albanian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Albanian word for "Thank You" is Ju faleminderit. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Albanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Albanian Difficulty
The Finnish vs Albanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Albanian 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 Finnish and Albanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Albanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Albanian time required is 44 weeks.