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
Not Available
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
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
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
Rauma
Where They Speak
Denmark
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Subgroup
Not Available
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Not Available
Finnic
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
standard Finnish
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
dani1284
finn1318
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Danish 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 Danish and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Danish and Finnish language. Danish word for "Hello" is Hallo or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Danish Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Danish vs Finnish Difficulty
The Danish vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Danish 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 Danish and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Danish and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Danish is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.