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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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