Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
- 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
Czech Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ahoj
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Dobrú noc
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Prosím
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Pardón!
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Dovidenia
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.20 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.20 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
slovenčina
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
Suomi
  
French Name
slovaque
  
finnois
  
German Name
Slowakisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Slovaks
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
6th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Western
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Slovak
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sk
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slk
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
slo
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
slk
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1269
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Slovak 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 Slovak and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovak and Finnish language. Slovak word for "Hello" is Ahoj or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Slovak Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovak vs Finnish Difficulty
The Slovak vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovak 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 Slovak and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovak and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovak is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.