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Indonesian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
Indonesia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   
Indonesia   

Second Language
Estonia   
East Timor, Indonesia   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland   
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa   

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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
  • In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Malay language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Malay and Dutch Languages   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
29   
11
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
6   
3

How Many Consonants
13   
3
19   
9

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
7   
6

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
36 weeks   
10

Greetings

Hello
Moi   
Halo   

Thank You
Kiitos   
Terima kasih   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Apa kabar?   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
Selamat Malam   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
Malam yang baik   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
Selamat Sore   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
Selamat Pagi   

Please
haluta   
mohon Untuk   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
maaf   

Bye
Heippa   
Selamat tinggal   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
Aku cinta kamu   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
Permisi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Sundanese   

Where They Speak
Finland   
Indonesia   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
38,000,000.00   
8

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Balinese   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
3,300,000.00   
17

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Minangkabau   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
6,000,000.00   
7

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
46   
30

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million   
99+
163.00 million   
11

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.16 %   
14

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
23.00 million   
34

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
140.00 million   
4

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
Bahasa Melayu   

Alternative Names
Suomi   
Bahasa Indonesia   

French Name
finnois   
indonésien   

German Name
Finnisch   
Bahasa Indonesia   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Indonesians   

History

Origin
1543   
7th Century   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Indonesian   

Branch
Finnic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
Old Malay   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Indonesian   

Language Position
Not Available   
56   
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
id   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
ind   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
ind   

ISO 639 3
fin   
ind   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
finn1318   
indo1316   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Agglutinative   

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Finnish and Indonesian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Indonesian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Indonesian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Indonesian language states that this language originated in 7th 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 Indonesian Language History.

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Finnish and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Indonesian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Indonesian Difficulty

The Finnish vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.

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