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