Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Moldova, Romania
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
- 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
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
alo
  
Moi
  
Thank You
multumesc
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
ce mai faci?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
noapte Buna
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
buna Seara
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
buna Ziua
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
bună Dimineața
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Vă Rog
  
haluta
  
Sorry
scuze
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
La revedere
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Te iubesc
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Scuza-Ma
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Aromanian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million
  
30
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Română
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
  
Suomi
  
French Name
roumain; moldave
  
finnois
  
German Name
Rumänisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[roˈmɨnə]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Romanians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1521
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Romanian
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Romanian
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ro
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ron
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
rum
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
ron
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
roma1327
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
51-AAD-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Romanian 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 Romanian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Romanian and Finnish language. Romanian word for "Hello" is alo or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Romanian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Romanian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Romanian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Romanian 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 Romanian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Romanian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Romanian is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.