Countries
Haiti
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Haiti
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Cuba
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
  
- 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
French Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Bonjou
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Mèsi
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Kijan ou yé?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Bon nwit
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Bonswa
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Bon apre-midi
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Souple
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Dezole
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Babay
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Mwen renmen w
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Eskize m
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Cap-Haitien
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Cayes
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
9.60 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
9.60 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Kreyòl ayisyen
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
  
Suomi
  
French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
  
finnois
  
German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[kɣejɔl]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Haitians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
17th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Haitian Creole
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ht
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hat
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
hat
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
hat
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hait1244
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cb
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Haitian Creole 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 Haitian Creole and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Haitian Creole and Finnish language. Haitian Creole word for "Hello" is Bonjou or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Haitian Creole Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Haitian Creole vs Finnish Difficulty
The Haitian Creole vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Haitian Creole 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 Haitian Creole and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Haitian Creole and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Haitian Creole is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.