Countries
European Union, Finland
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
haluta
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
pole
  
Bye
Heippa
  
bye
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
finnois
  
swahili
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
1543
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Swahili language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Swahili Difficulty
The Finnish vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.