Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
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 in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
1,500,000.00
  
17
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.