Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
European Union, Finland
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 in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Scanian
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Sweden
Finland
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
Rauma
Where They Speak
Denmark
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
Finland, Sweden
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
standard Finnish
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
dani1284
finn1318
Linguasphere
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No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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.