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Finnish vs Mongolian


Mongolian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
China, Mongolia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
29  
11
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
13  
10

How Many Consonants
13  
3
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script  

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  
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)  

Dialects

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  
123,000.00  
34

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Khorchin Mongolian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Mongolia  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
8  
8

How Many People Speak

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  

History

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  

Code

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  

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Finnish and Mongolian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Mongolian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Mongolian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Mongolian language states that this language originated in 1224-1225. 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 Mongolian Language History.

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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.

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