Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
European Union, Finland
  
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 in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.