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Finnish vs Serbian


Serbian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  

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.
  
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
13  
3
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic, Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Здраво (Zdravo)  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Како си? (Kako si?)  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  

Please
haluta  
Молим (Molim)  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  

Bye
Heippa  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Волим те (Volim te)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Извините (Izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Southeastern Serbia  

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Smederevo–Vršac  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Serbia  

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
1,500,000.00  
17

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
Not Available  

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Montenegrin  

French Name
finnois  
serbe  

German Name
Finnisch  
Serbisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[sr̩̂pskiː]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Serbs  

History

Origin
1543  
11th Century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Not Available  

Branch
Finnic  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Standard Serbian  

Language Position
Not Available  
44  
33

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
sr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
srp  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
srp  

ISO 639 3
fin  
srp  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
serb1264  

Linguasphere
No data available  
53-AAA-g  

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 Serbian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Serbian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th 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 Serbian Language History.

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

Finnish vs Serbian Difficulty

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

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