Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Moi
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
Kiitos
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
haluta
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
Anteeksi
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Jeju
Where They Speak
Finland
South Korea
Dialect 2
Rauma
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
South Korea
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
China, North Korea
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
finnois
coréen
German Name
Finnisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[hangukmal]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Koreans
Origin
1543
Before 1st century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Koreanic Family
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
finn1318
kore1280
Linguasphere
No data available
45-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Finnish and Korean 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 Finnish and Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Korean language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Korean Difficulty
The Finnish vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Korean 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 Finnish and Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.