Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
haluta
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
finnois
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
1543
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Finnish and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Slovak language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Slovak Difficulty
The Finnish vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.