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Romanian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Romanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
6   
9
2   
13

National Language
Moldova, Romania   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Kazakhstan, Russia   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
  • The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
  • 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
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
31   
13
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7   
4
8   
5

How Many Consonants
20   
10
13   
3

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
alo   
Moi   

Thank You
multumesc   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
ce mai faci?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
noapte Buna   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
buna Seara   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
buna Ziua   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
bună Dimineața   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Vă Rog   
haluta   

Sorry
scuze   
Anteeksi   

Bye
La revedere   
Heippa   

I Love You
Te iubesc   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Scuza-Ma   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Aromanian   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
250,000.00   
38
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
5,000.00   
99+
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
1,400.00   
37
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million   
38
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.37 %   
35
Not Available   

Native Speakers
24.00 million   
33
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
4.00 million   
30
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
Română   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian   
Suomi   

French Name
roumain; moldave   
finnois   

German Name
Rumänisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[roˈmɨnə]   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Romanians   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
1521   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Romanian   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Romanian   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
36   
28
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ro   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ron   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
rum   
fin   

ISO 639 3
ron   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
roma1327   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
51-AAD-c   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Romanian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Romanian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Romanian and Finnish language. History of Romanian language states that this language originated in 1521 whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. 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 Romanian and Finnish Language History.

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

Romanian vs Finnish Difficulty

The Romanian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Romanian 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 Romanian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Romanian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Romanian is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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