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Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
10  
6

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

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

Alphabets
29  
11
23  
5

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
9  
6

How Many Consonants
13  
3
19  
9

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Olá  

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  

Please
haluta  
Por Favor  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
pesaroso  

Bye
Heippa  
tchau  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Eu te amo  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
desculpe me  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Brazilian Portuguese  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Brazil  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
204,000,000.00  
4

Dialect 2
Rauma  
European Portuguese  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Portugal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
10,000,000.00  
9

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Daman and Diu  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
4,000.00  
36

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
26  
22

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
231.00 million  
7

Speaking Population
Not Available  
3.27 %  
7

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
216.00 million  
5

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
15.00 million  
18

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  

History

Origin
1543  
3rd Century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Romance  

Branch
Finnic  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Medieval Galician  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Portuguese  

Language Position
Not Available  
6  
6

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Portuguese  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
pt  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
por  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
por  

ISO 639 3
fin  
por  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
port1283  

Linguasphere
No data available  
51-AAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Not Available  

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Finnish and Portuguese Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Portuguese language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Portuguese language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Portuguese language states that this language originated in 3rd Century. 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 Portuguese Language History.

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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.

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