Countries
European Union, Finland
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
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.
  
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
haluta
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
22
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
finnois
  
coréen
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Koreans
  
Origin
1543
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Finnish and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Korean language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Korean Difficulty
The Finnish vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.