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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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