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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

Interesting Facts

  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Spanish

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2927
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1321
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
Kaixo

Thank You

Kiitos
Eskerrik asko

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
Zer moduz?

Good Night

hyvää yötä
Gabon

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
Arratsalde on

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Arratsalde on

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
Egun on

Please

haluta
Mesedez

Sorry

Anteeksi
Barkatu

Bye

Heippa
Agur

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
Maite zaitut

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Barkatu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Navarro-Lapurdian

Where They Speak

Finland
France

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0068,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Souletin

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.008,700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Biscayan

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Spain

How Many People Speak

60,000.00750,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

216
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million7.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million7.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
Euskara

Alternative Names

Suomi
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

French Name

finnois
basque

German Name

Finnisch
Baskisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[bɑːsk]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Basque people

History

Origin

1543
c. 1000

Language Family

Uralic Family
Vasconic Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
-

Branch

Finnic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Basque

Language Position

2230
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Basque Sign Language

Scope

Individual
-

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
eu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
eus

ISO 639 2/B

fin
baq

ISO 639 3

fin
eus

ISO 639 6

fin
eus

Glottocode

finn1318
basq1248

Linguasphere

No data available
40-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
-

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Finnish and Basque Alphabets

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

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

Finnish and Basque Speaking population

Finnish and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 %. 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 Finnish and Basque on Finnish vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Basque Language Codes

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