Countries
European Union, Finland
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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.
  
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
haluta
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Not present
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Not present
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
finnois
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1543
  
1887
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Esperanto
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Finnish and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Esperanto language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Esperanto word for "Thank You" is Dankon. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Esperanto Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Esperanto Difficulty
The Finnish vs Esperanto difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Esperanto 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 Esperanto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Esperanto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Esperanto time required is 6 weeks.