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Countries

Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
10  
6
2  
13

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

Second Language
United States of America  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
  • 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
Spanish and Galician Languages  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
23  
5
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
8  
5

How Many Consonants
19  
9
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Olá  
Moi  

Thank You
obrigado  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Como você está?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
boa noite  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
boa Noite  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
boa Tarde  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
bom Dia  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
Por Favor  
haluta  

Sorry
pesaroso  
Anteeksi  

Bye
tchau  
Heippa  

I Love You
Eu te amo  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
desculpe me  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Brazil  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00  
4
Not Available  

Dialect 2
European Portuguese  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Portugal  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00  
9
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Daman and Diu  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
4,000.00  
36
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
26  
22
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
231.00 million  
7
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
3.27 %  
7
Not Available  

Native Speakers
216.00 million  
5
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
15.00 million  
18
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
Português  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Português  
Suomi  

French Name
portugais  
finnois  

German Name
Portugiesisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
3rd Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Not Available  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Medieval Galician  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Portuguese  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
6  
6
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
pt  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
por  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
por  
fin  

ISO 639 3
por  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
port1283  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-a  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Portuguese and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Portuguese vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Portuguese and Finnish language. History of Portuguese language states that this language originated in 3rd Century 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 Portuguese and Finnish Language History.

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

Portuguese vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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