Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
European Union, Finland
  
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 in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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?
231.00 million
  
7
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.