Countries
European Union, Finland
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
haluta
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
finnois
  
mongol
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1543
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Mongolian 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 Mongolian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Mongolian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Mongolian word for "Thank You" is та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Mongolian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Mongolian Difficulty
The Finnish vs Mongolian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Mongolian 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 Mongolian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Mongolian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Mongolian time required is 44 weeks.