Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
North Korea, South Korea
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
- 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
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Hangul
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Jeju
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
South Korea
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
South Korea
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million
  
22
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
Suomi
  
French Name
coréen
  
finnois
  
German Name
Koreanisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Koreans
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
Before 1st century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Koreanic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ko
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kor
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
kor
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
Kor
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kore1280
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
45-AAA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Korean 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 Korean and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Korean and Finnish language. Korean word for "Hello" is 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Korean Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Korean vs Finnish Difficulty
The Korean vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Korean 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 Korean and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Korean and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Korean is 88 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.