Countries
Galicia
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Galicia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- In Galician language, there are no compound tenses.
- The earliest document in Galician language was written in 1228 which was legal charter for a municipality of Galicia.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Portuguese Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Ola
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Grazas
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Que tal estás?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Boas noites
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Boa tarde
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Boa tarde
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Bos días
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Por favor
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Síntoo!
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Adeus
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Ámote
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Perdoe!
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Galician
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
East Galicia
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Central Galician
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Central Galicia
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Western Galician
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
West Galicia
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
2.40 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.40 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Galego
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Galego, Gallego
  
Suomi
  
French Name
galicien
  
finnois
  
German Name
Galicisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡaˈleɣo]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1175
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Galician
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gl
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
glg
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
glg
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
glg
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
gali1258
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-ab
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Galician and Finnish 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 Galician and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Galician and Finnish language. Galician word for "Hello" is Ola or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Galician Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Galician vs Finnish Difficulty
The Galician vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Galician Alphabets and Finnish 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 Galician and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Galician and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Galician is Not Available while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.