Countries
Armenian Highland
European Union, Finland
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- 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
Greek
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
Kiitos
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
haluta
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Anteeksi
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Finland
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Rauma
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
-
Finland, Sweden
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Suomi
French Name
arménien
finnois
German Name
Armenisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Armenians
ethnic Finns
Origin
late 5th century
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
standard Finnish
Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
arme1241
finn1318
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Armenian 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 Armenian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Armenian and Finnish language. Armenian word for "Hello" is Բարեւ (Barev) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Armenian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Armenian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Armenian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Armenian 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 Armenian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Armenian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Armenian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.