Countries
Philippines
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Filipinos
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
- 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
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Baybayin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kamusta
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Salamat po
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Magandang gabi
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
pakiusap
  
haluta
  
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Paálam
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Iniibig kita
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Bisalog
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Filipino
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million
  
24
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
  
13
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Tagalog
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
  
Suomi
  
French Name
tagalog
  
finnois
  
German Name
Tagalog
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1593
  
1543
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Filipino
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
t1
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
tg1
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
taga1269
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
31-CKA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Tagalog 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 Tagalog and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tagalog and Finnish language. Tagalog word for "Hello" is Kamusta or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Tagalog Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tagalog vs Finnish Difficulty
The Tagalog vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tagalog 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 Tagalog and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tagalog and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tagalog is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.