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Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language
Estonia

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
29 11

Phonology

How Many Vowels
8 5

How Many Consonants
13 3

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Moi

Thank You
Kiitos

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night
hyvää yötä

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta

Please
haluta

Sorry
Anteeksi

Bye
Heippa

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak
Finland

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00 45

Dialect 2
Rauma

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00 45

Dialect 3
Meänkieli

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak
60,000.00 72

Total No. Of Dialects
21 19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million 71

Speaking Population
0.13 % 54

Native Speakers
5.40 million 65

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million 68

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names
Suomi

French Name
finnois

German Name
Finnisch

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns

History

Origin
1543

Language Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric

Branch
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms
standard Finnish

Language Position
22 20

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
fin

ISO 639 2/B
fin

ISO 639 3
fin

ISO 639 6
fin

Glottocode
finn1318

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic

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Know Alphabets in Finnish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Finnish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Finnish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Finnish. Finnish phonology gives Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. There are 8 vowels and 13 consonants in Finnish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Finnish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Finnish language is given in detail in this section.

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All Finnish countries

Want to explore all Finnish countries? About Finnish language serves you with all Finnish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Finnish as official language are called as Finnish countries.

  • Countries that use Finnish as their National Language are: Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Finnish as second language are: Estonia.

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Learn Finnish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Finnish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Finnish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Finnish language.Learn Finnish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Moi
  • Thank you: Kiitos
  • Good Morning: Hyvää huomenta
  • Good Evening: Hyvää iltaa
  • Good Afternoon: Hyvää iltapäivää

All Finnish Language Codes

Get to know all Finnish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Finnish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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