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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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