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Countries

Countries

Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

332
0 46
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National Language

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

South Africa
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

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Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

Latin
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

74
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hello
Moi

Thank You

Thank you
Kiitos

How Are You?

How are you?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Good Night
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Please
haluta

Sorry

Sorry
Anteeksi

Bye

Bye
Heippa

I Love You

I love you
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Excuse Me
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

American English
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

United States of America
Finland

How Many People Speak

225,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hiberno-English
Rauma

Where They Speak

Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Welsh English
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

United Kingdom
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

18821
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,200.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

5.43 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

400.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

400.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

English
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

English
Suomi

French Name

anglais
finnois

German Name

Englisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

English people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

5th Century AD
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

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Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Standard English
standard Finnish

Language Position

322
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed English
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

en
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eng
fin

ISO 639 2/B

eng
fin

ISO 639 3

eng
fin

ISO 639 6

engs
fin

Glottocode

stan1293
finn1318

Linguasphere

52-ABA
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

English and Finnish Alphabets

English and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in English and Finnish. In English Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn English and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of English and Finnish languages. The English phonology consist English vowels and English consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at English greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether English and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

English and Finnish Speaking population

English and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which English and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of English and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 % 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 English and Finnish on English vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

English and Finnish Language Codes

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