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Italian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Italian


Countries

Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
7   
8
2   
13

National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
  • 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 and Portuguese Languages   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
21   
3
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
16   
6
13   
3

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
ciao   
Moi   

Thank You
grazie   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Come stai?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
buonanotte   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
buonasera   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
buongiorno   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Per Favore   
haluta   

Sorry
scusate   
Anteeksi   

Bye
arrivederci   
Heippa   

I Love You
Ti amo   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Scusami   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Romanesco   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Lazio   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00   
21
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Central Italian   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00   
14
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Tuscan   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
15   
14
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
78.00 million   
21
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.90 %   
22
Not Available   

Native Speakers
64.00 million   
18
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
14.00 million   
20
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
Italiano   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Italiano   
Suomi   

French Name
italien   
finnois   

German Name
Italienisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Italians   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
960 BC   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Italian   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
27   
23
Not Available   

Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
it   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ita   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
ita   
fin   

ISO 639 3
ita   
fin   

ISO 639 6
itas   
Not Available   

Glottocode
ital1282   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-q   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Italian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Italian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Italian and Finnish language. History of Italian language states that this language originated in 960 BC whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Italian and Finnish Language History.

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Italian 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 Italian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Italian and Finnish language. Italian word for "Hello" is ciao or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Italian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Italian vs Finnish Difficulty

The Italian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Italian 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 Italian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Italian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Italian is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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