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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
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   
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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