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Persian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Persian


Countries

Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
2   
13

National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Arabic Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
32   
14
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
8   
5

How Many Consonants
23   
13
13   
3

Scripts
Arabic   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
سلام   
Moi   

Thank You
متشکرم   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
چطور هستید?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
شب بخیر   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
عصر بخیر   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
صبح به خیر   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
لطفا   
haluta   

Sorry
متاسف   
Anteeksi   

Bye
خدا حافظ   
Heippa   

I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
ببخشيد!   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Western Persian   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00   
7
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Dari Persian   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Afganistan   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00   
7
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Tajik Persian   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00   
6
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
12   
12
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
65.00 million   
26
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.99 %   
20
Not Available   

Native Speakers
65.00 million   
17
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
فارسی   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian   
Suomi   

French Name
persan   
finnois   

German Name
Persisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Persian people   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
1500 BC   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Iranian   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Persian   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
23   
19
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fa   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fas   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
per   
fin   

ISO 639 3
pes   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
fars1254   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
58-AAC-c   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Persian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Persian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Persian and Finnish language. History of Persian language states that this language originated in 1500 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 Persian and Finnish Language History.

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

Persian vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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