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Countries

Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

France, Spain
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  • 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

Spanish
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2729
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2113
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kaixo
Moi

Thank You

Eskerrik asko
Kiitos

How Are You?

Zer moduz?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Gabon
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Arratsalde on
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Egun on
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Mesedez
haluta

Sorry

Barkatu
Anteeksi

Bye

Agur
Heippa

I Love You

Maite zaitut
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Barkatu
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

France
Finland

How Many People Speak

68,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Souletin
Rauma

Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

8,700.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Biscayan
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Spain
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

750,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

621
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.20 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.20 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Euskara
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Suomi

French Name

basque
finnois

German Name

Baskisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[bɑːsk]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Basque people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

c. 1000
1543

Language Family

Vasconic Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

-
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Basque
standard Finnish

Language Position

3022
1 120
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Signed Forms

Basque Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

eu
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eus
fin

ISO 639 2/B

baq
fin

ISO 639 3

eus
fin

ISO 639 6

eus
fin

Glottocode

basq1248
finn1318

Linguasphere

40-AAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Basque and Finnish Alphabets

Basque and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Basque and Finnish. In Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Basque and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Basque and Finnish languages. The Basque phonology consist Basque vowels and Basque consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Basque greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Basque and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Basque and Finnish Speaking population

Basque and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 % 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 Basque and Finnish on Basque vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Basque and Finnish Language Codes

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