Countries
Burkina Faso
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
- 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
Dagbani Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kia ora
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Laafi bala
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Ne y yungo
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
ne y zabre
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
gafare
  
haluta
  
Sorry
gafare
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Y gafare
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Saremde
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Taolende
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
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Native Name
Mosse
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Suomi
  
French Name
moré
  
finnois
  
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Mossi
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
Not available
  
1543
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Mossi
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mos
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mos
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mos
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
moss1236
  
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
  
Mossi 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 Mossi and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mossi and Finnish language. Mossi word for "Hello" is Kia ora or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Mossi Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mossi vs Finnish Difficulty
The Mossi vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mossi 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 Mossi and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mossi and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mossi is 30 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.