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Macedonian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Macedonian


Countries

Countries
Macedonia   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
  • The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
  • 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
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
31   
13
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
26   
16
13   
3

Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)   
Moi   

Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)   
haluta   

Sorry
жал (žal)   
Anteeksi   

Bye
Чао (Čao)   
Heippa   

I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Torlakian   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
1.50   
99+
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Debar   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Macedonia   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
Galičnik   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Macedonia   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
28   
23
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
2.50 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
2.50 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic   
Suomi   

French Name
macédonien   
finnois   

German Name
Makedonisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Macedonians   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
2200 BC   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Southern   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Macedonian   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
mk   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mkd   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
mac   
fin   

ISO 639 3
mkd   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
mace1250   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Macedonian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Macedonian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Macedonian and Finnish language. History of Macedonian language states that this language originated in 2200 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 Macedonian and Finnish Language History.

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

Macedonian vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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