Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Indonesia
  
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 in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.