Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
  
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.
  
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Tagalog Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Spanish Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Filipino-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Kumusta
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Kumusta
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Magandang hapon
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Magandang umaga
  
Please
haluta
  
Mangyaring
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Paalam
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Mahal kita
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
patawarin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Bikol
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Philippines
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Hiligaynon
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
8,200,000.00
  
11
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Waray
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
2,600,000.00
  
13
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
90.00 million
  
17
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
45.00 million
  
23
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
filipino
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Pilipino
  
French Name
finnois
  
filipino; pilipino
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Pilipino
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1543
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Filipino
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
No Data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
fil
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
fil
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
fil
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
fili1244
  
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 Filipino 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 Filipino greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Filipino language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Filipino word for "Thank You" is Salamat. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Filipino Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Filipino Difficulty
The Finnish vs Filipino difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Filipino 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 Filipino are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Filipino, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Filipino time required is 44 weeks.