Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
bok
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
haluta
  
molim
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
finnois
  
croate
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Croats
  
Origin
1543
  
9th 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
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Finnish and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Croatian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Croatian Difficulty
The Finnish vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.