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Finnish and Serbian


Serbian and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
13  
3
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Здраво (Zdravo)  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Како си? (Kako si?)  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  

Please
haluta  
Молим (Molim)  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  

Bye
Heippa  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Волим те (Volim te)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Извините (Izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Southeastern Serbia  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
12,000,000.00  
35

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Smederevo–Vršac  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Serbia  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
12,000,000.00  
34

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
12.00 million  
38

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Montenegrin  

French Name
finnois  
serbe  

German Name
Finnisch  
Serbisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[sr̩̂pskiː]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Serbs  

History

Origin
1543  
11th Century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
-  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Standard Serbian  

Language Position
22  
20
44  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
sr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
srp  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
srp  

ISO 639 3
fin  
srp  

ISO 639 6
fin  
srp  

Glottocode
finn1318  
serb1264  

Linguasphere
No data available  
53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
-  

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All Finnish and Serbian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Serbian Speaking population

Finnish and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Serbian on Finnish vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Serbian Language Codes

Finnish and Serbian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Serbian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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