Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
European Union, Finland
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
تصبح على خير
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
مساء الخير
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
صباح الخير
Hyvää huomenta
I Love You
أحبك
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Finland
Where They Speak
Sudan
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Finland, Sweden
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Suomi
French Name
arabe
finnois
German Name
Arabisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Arabs
ethnic Finns
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
North Arabic
Finnic
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
standard Finnish
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Finnish
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
finn1318
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Arabic 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 Arabic and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Finnish language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Finnish Difficulty
The Arabic vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.