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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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