Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
haluta
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Heippa
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
finnois
  
persan
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Persian people
  
Origin
1543
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Persian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Finnish and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Persian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Persian Difficulty
The Finnish vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.