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Finnish vs Indonesian


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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