Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Somalia
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- 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
Somali Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Maaloo
  
haluta
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
Suomi
  
French Name
galla
  
finnois
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
16
  
1543
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
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
  
Oromo 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 Oromo and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Finnish language. Oromo word for "Hello" is akkam or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oromo vs Finnish Difficulty
The Oromo vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo 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 Oromo and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is Not Available while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.