Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Bhutan
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Bhutan
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
India
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
India
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Dzongkha Development Commission
  
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.
  
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Sikkimese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tibetan Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Moi
  
Kuzoozangpo La
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Kaadinchhey La
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
lek shom ay zim
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Not Available
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Not Available
  
Please
haluta
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Tsip maza
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Log Jay Gay
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Nga cheu lu ga
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Tsip maza
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Laya
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Bhutan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Lunana
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Bhutan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Adap
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Bhutan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
0.64 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
0.17 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
0.47 million
  
37
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
  
French Name
finnois
  
dzongkha
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Dzongkha
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Ngalop people
  
Origin
1543
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Dzongkha
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
dz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
nucl1307
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Dzongkha 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 Dzongkha greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Dzongkha language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Dzongkha word for "Thank You" is Kaadinchhey La. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Dzongkha Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Dzongkha Difficulty
The Finnish vs Dzongkha difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Dzongkha 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 Dzongkha are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Dzongkha, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Dzongkha time required is Not Available.