Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
zoo hmo
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
thov
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Laos
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
21
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Hmong
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Mong
  
Suomi
  
French Name
hmong
  
finnois
  
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Hmong people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
19
  
1543
  
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Hmong
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
hmv
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
firs1234
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
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
  
Hmong 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 Hmong and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hmong and Finnish language. Hmong word for "Hello" is Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Hmong Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hmong vs Finnish Difficulty
The Hmong vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hmong 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 Hmong and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hmong and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hmong is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.