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Polish vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
European Union, Poland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   
Poland   

Second Language
Estonia   
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Europe   

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland   
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)   

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.
  
  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
32   
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
9   
6

How Many Consonants
13   
3
23   
13

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi   
cześć   

Thank You
Kiitos   
dziękuję   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Jak się masz?   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
dobranoc   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
dobry wieczór   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
dzień dobry   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
Dzień dobry   

Please
haluta   
proszę   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
Przepraszam   

Bye
Heippa   
do widzenia   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
kocham Cię   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
przepraszam   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Kashubian   

Where They Speak
Finland   
Poland   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
108,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Masovian   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Poland   

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Silesian   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
Czech Republic, Poland   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
510,000.00   
22

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
34   
27

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million   
99+
40.00 million   
31

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.61 %   
25

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
40.00 million   
24

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
Not Available   

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
Polski   

Alternative Names
Suomi   
Polnisch, Polski   

French Name
finnois   
polonais   

German Name
Finnisch   
Polnisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
[ˈpɔlski]   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Poles   

History

Origin
1543   
1270   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Slavic   

Branch
Finnic   
Western   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
Old Polish and Middle Polish   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Polish   

Language Position
Not Available   
24   
20

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
pl   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
pol   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
pol   

ISO 639 3
fin   
pol   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
pols   

Glottocode
finn1318   
poli1260   

Linguasphere
No data available   
53-AAA-cc   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Finnish and Polish Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Polish language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Polish language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Polish language states that this language originated in 1270. 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 Polish Language History.

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

Finnish vs Polish Difficulty

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

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