Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
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.
  
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
ciao
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
grazie
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Come stai?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
buonanotte
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
buonasera
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
buon pomeriggio
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
buongiorno
  
Please
haluta
  
Per Favore
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
scusate
  
Bye
Heippa
  
arrivederci
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Ti amo
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Scusami
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Romanesco
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Lazio
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Central Italian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Tuscan
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
78.00 million
  
21
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
64.00 million
  
18
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
14.00 million
  
20
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Italiano
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Italiano
  
French Name
finnois
  
italien
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Italienisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[itaˈljaːno]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Italians
  
Origin
1543
  
960 BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Romance
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Italian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
it
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
ita
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
ita
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
ita
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
itas
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
ital1282
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Finnish and Italian 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 Italian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Italian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Italian word for "Thank You" is grazie. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Italian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Italian Difficulty
The Finnish vs Italian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Italian 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 Italian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Italian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Italian time required is 24 weeks.