Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
European Union, Finland
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
- 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
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Moi
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Kiitos
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Молим (Molim)
haluta
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Anteeksi
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Heippa
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Finland
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Rauma
Where They Speak
Serbia
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Finland, Sweden
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Suomi
French Name
serbe
finnois
German Name
Serbisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Serbs
ethnic Finns
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Not Available
Finnic
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
standard Finnish
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
finn1318
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Serbian 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 Serbian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Finnish language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Serbian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian 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 Serbian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.