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Serbian and Finnish


Finnish and Serbian


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

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

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

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

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

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
25  
15
13  
3

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
Moi  

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  
Kiitos  

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

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
Молим (Molim)  
haluta  

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  
Anteeksi  

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  
Heippa  

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

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Finland  

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

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
Finland, Rauma  

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

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Meänkieli  

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

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

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
21  
19

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
12.00 million  
38
0.01 million  
99+

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

Alternative Names
Montenegrin  
Suomi  

French Name
serbe  
finnois  

German Name
Serbisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
11th Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
-  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
-  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
44  
99+
22  
20

Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
fin  

ISO 639 3
srp  
fin  

ISO 639 6
srp  
fin  

Glottocode
serb1264  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
No data available  

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 Serbian and Finnish 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 Serbian and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Serbian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Serbian are spoken in different Serbian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Serbian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok, Smederevo–Vršac. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Serbian and Finnish Speaking population

Serbian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Serbian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Serbian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish 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 Serbian and Finnish on Serbian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Serbian and Finnish Language Codes

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

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