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Finnish vs Croatian


Croatian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
9  
7

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

Alphabets in
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Croatian-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  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
660,000.00  
31

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
60,000.00  
31
13,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
Not Available  
89.00 %  
1

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  

History

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  
23  
19

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Finnish and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Croatian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century. 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 Croatian Language History.

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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.

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