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Norwegian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Norwegian


Countries

Countries
Norway   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Norway   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Europe, South America   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Nynorsk   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
  • Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
  • 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
Swedish and Danish Languages   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
8   
5

How Many Consonants
20   
10
13   
3

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo   
Moi   

Thank You
takk   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
hvordan har du det?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
god natt   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
god kveld   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
god morgen   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Vær så snill   
haluta   

Sorry
unnskyld   
Anteeksi   

Bye
ha det   
Heippa   

I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
unnskyld meg   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jamtlandic   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
99+
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Sognamål   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Sogn   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
19   
17
21   
19

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
5.00 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
Norsk   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Norsk   
Suomi   

French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien   
finnois   

German Name
Nynorsk   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Norwegians   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
c. 1300 AD   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Germanic   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
no   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nor   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
nor   
fin   

ISO 639 3
nor   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
norw1258   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Norwegian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Norwegian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Norwegian and Finnish language. History of Norwegian language states that this language originated in c. 1300 AD 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 Norwegian and Finnish Language History.

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

Norwegian vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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