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Countries

Countries

Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

52
0 46
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National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  • 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

Norwegian and Swedish
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

Old Norse Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

208
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2013
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Moi

Thank You

Mange tak
Kiitos

How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

God nat
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

God aften
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

God morgen
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Please
haluta

Sorry

Undskyld!
Anteeksi

Bye

Farvel
Heippa

I Love You

Jeg elsker dig
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Undskyld mig
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Scanian
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Sweden
Finland

How Many People Speak

80,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Jutlandic
Rauma

Where They Speak

Denmark
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bornholmsk
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

421
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.50 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.50 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

dansk
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk
Suomi

French Name

danois
finnois

German Name

Dänisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

c. 1100 AD
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

-
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Rigsdansk
standard Finnish

Language Position

1822
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Danish
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

da
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dan
fin

ISO 639 2/B

dan
fin

ISO 639 3

dan
fin

ISO 639 6

dan
fin

Glottocode

dani1284
finn1318

Linguasphere

5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Danish and Finnish Alphabets

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

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

Danish and Finnish Speaking population

Danish and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Danish and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Danish and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 % 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 Danish and Finnish on Danish vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Danish and Finnish Language Codes

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