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Serbian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
30  
12
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
25  
15
13  
3

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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  

Dialects

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  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
17
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.70 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
0.01 million  
39

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  

History

Origin
11th Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Not Available  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
44  
33
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
fin  

ISO 639 3
srp  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
serb1264  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
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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Serbian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and Finnish language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th 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 Serbian and Finnish Language History.

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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.

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