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Serbian vs Finnish


Finnish vs 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
Not Available   
Not Available   

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   
11
44 weeks   
11

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   

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Serbia   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
Torlakian   
Meänkieli   

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

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00   
17
60,000.00   
31

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
8.70 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

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
Not Available   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
44   
33
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
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
Not Available   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Serbian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and Finnish language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century 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 Serbian and Finnish Language History.

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

Serbian vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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