Countries
European Union, Finland
  
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
zoo hmo
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
zoo tav su
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
Please
haluta
  
thov
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Kuv hlub koj
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
zam txim rau kuv
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Hmong Njua
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Laos
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Hmong Daw
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
21
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Hmong Do
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
4.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
3.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Hmong
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Mong
  
French Name
finnois
  
hmong
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Miao-Sprachen
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Hmong people
  
Origin
1543
  
19
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Hmong
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
hmv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
firs1234
  
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 Hmong 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 Hmong greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Hmong language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Hmong word for "Thank You" is Ua tsaug (Oua jow). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Hmong Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Hmong Difficulty
The Finnish vs Hmong difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Hmong 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 Hmong are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Hmong, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Hmong time required is 44 weeks.