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Arabic vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
23  
4

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Africa, Asia  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council  

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.
  
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Amharic and Hebrew  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
28  
10

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
8  
5

How Many Consonants
13  
3
28  
18

Scripts
Latin  
Arabic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
مرحبا  

Thank You
Kiitos  
شكرا  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
كيف حالك؟  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
تصبح على خير  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
مساء الخير  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
مساء الخير  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
صباح الخير  

Please
haluta  
من فضلك  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
آسف  

Bye
Heippa  
وداعا  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
أحبك  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
اعذرني  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Maghrebi  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia  

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Sudanese  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Sudan  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
17,000,000.00  
6

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Levantine  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Cyprus, Levant  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
21,000,000.00  
3

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
26  
22

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
452.00 million  
4

Speaking Population
Not Available  
4.43 %  
6

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
206.00 million  
6

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
246.00 million  
2

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
(al arabiya) العربية  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic  

French Name
finnois  
arabe  

German Name
Finnisch  
Arabisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Arabs  

History

Origin
1543  
512 CE  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Semitic  

Branch
Finnic  
North Arabic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Modern Standard Arabic  

Language Position
Not Available  
25  
21

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Arabic  

Scope
Individual  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
ar  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
ara  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
ara  

ISO 639 3
fin  
ara  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
arab1395  

Linguasphere
No data available  
12-AAC  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Finnish and Arabic Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Arabic language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Arabic language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Arabic language states that this language originated in 512 CE. 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 Finnish and Arabic Language History.

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

Finnish vs Arabic Difficulty

The Finnish vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Arabic 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 Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.

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