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Finnish vs Macedonian


Macedonian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Macedonia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Albania, Romania, Serbia  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"  

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.
  
  • There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
  • The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
31  
13

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
13  
3
26  
16

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Здраво (Zdravo)  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Како си? (Kako si?)  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Добар ден (Dobar den)  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)  

Please
haluta  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
жал (žal)  

Bye
Heippa  
Чао (Čao)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Те сакам (Te sakam)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1.50  
99+

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Debar  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Macedonia  

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Galičnik  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Macedonia  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
2.50 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
2.50 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
Not Available  

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic  

French Name
finnois  
macédonien  

German Name
Finnisch  
Makedonisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Macedonians  

History

Origin
1543  
2200 BC  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Slavic  

Branch
Finnic  
Southern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Macedonian  

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Macedonian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
mk  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
mkd  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
mac  

ISO 639 3
fin  
mkd  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
mace1250  

Linguasphere
No data available  
53-AAA-ha  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Analytic  

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Finnish and Macedonian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Macedonian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Macedonian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Macedonian language states that this language originated in 2200 BC. 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 Macedonian Language History.

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

Finnish vs Macedonian Difficulty

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

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