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Finnish vs Slovak


Slovak vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic  

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.
  
  • Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
  • Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Czech Language  

Derived From
-  
Czech-Slovak Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
46  
26

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
15  
12

How Many Consonants
13  
3
38  
27

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Ahoj  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Ďakujem vám  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Ako sa máte?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Dobrú noc  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Dobrý večer  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Dobré popoludnie  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Dobré ráno  

Please
haluta  
Prosím  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
Pardón!  

Bye
Heippa  
Dovidenia  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Ľúbim Ťa  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Prepáčte!  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Eastern Slovak  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
5,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Central Slovak  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
5,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Western Slovak  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
5,500,000.00  
37

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
4  
4

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.14 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
5.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
slovenčina  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Slovakian, Slovencina  

French Name
finnois  
slovaque  

German Name
Finnisch  
Slowakisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[ˈsləʊvæk]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Slovaks  

History

Origin
1543  
6th Century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Slavic  

Branch
Finnic  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Proto-Slavic  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Slovak  

Language Position
22  
20
27  
25

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Slovak Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
sk  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
slk  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
slo  

ISO 639 3
fin  
slk  

ISO 639 6
fin  
slk  

Glottocode
finn1318  
slov1269  

Linguasphere
No data available  
53-AAA-db  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Synthetic  

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Finnish and Slovak Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Slovak language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Slovak language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Slovak language states that this language originated in 6th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Finnish and Slovak Language History.

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Finnish and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Slovak language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Slovak Difficulty

The Finnish vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.

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