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Romanian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Romanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
31  
13
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7  
4
8  
5

How Many Consonants
20  
10
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
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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Aromanian  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
250,000.00  
38
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
5,000.00  
99+
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
1,400.00  
37
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million  
38
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.37 %  
35
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  

History

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
36  
28
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Romanian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Romanian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Romanian and Finnish language. History of Romanian language states that this language originated in 1521 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 Romanian and Finnish Language History.

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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.

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