Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Sweden
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hej
  
Moi
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
vänligen
  
haluta
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
hej då
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Svenska
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Suomi
  
French Name
suédois
  
finnois
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
13th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
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
  
Swedish 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 Swedish and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swedish and Finnish language. Swedish word for "Hello" is hej or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Swedish Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swedish vs Finnish Difficulty
The Swedish vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swedish 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 Swedish and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swedish and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swedish is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.