Countries
European Union, Finland
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Portugal
Second Language
Estonia
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Spanish and Galician Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Kiitos
obrigado
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Como você está?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
boa noite
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
boa Noite
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
boa Tarde
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
bom Dia
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Eu te amo
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
desculpe me
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Brazilian Portuguese
Where They Speak
Finland
Brazil
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Rauma
European Portuguese
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Portugal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Daman and Diu
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Português
Alternative Names
Suomi
Português
French Name
finnois
portugais
German Name
Finnisch
Portugiesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Portuguese people or portugueses
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Romance
Branch
Finnic
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Portuguese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Portuguese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
finn1318
port1283
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available
Finnish and Portuguese 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 Portuguese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Portuguese language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Portuguese word for "Thank You" is obrigado. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Portuguese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Portuguese Difficulty
The Finnish vs Portuguese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Portuguese 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 Portuguese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Portuguese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Portuguese time required is 24 weeks.