Countries
European Union, Finland
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Norwegian and Swedish
Derived From
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Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
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Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Kiitos
Mange tak
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Hvordan har du det?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
God nat
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
God aften
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
God eftermiddag
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
God morgen
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Jeg elsker dig
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Undskyld mig
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Scanian
Where They Speak
Finland
Sweden
Dialect 2
Rauma
Jutlandic
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Denmark
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Bornholmsk
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Island of Bornholm
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
dansk
Alternative Names
Suomi
Dansk, Rigsdansk
French Name
finnois
danois
German Name
Finnisch
Dänisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Danish people or Danes
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Rigsdansk
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Danish
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
finn1318
dani1284
Linguasphere
No data available
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Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional
All Finnish and Danish 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 Danish dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Danish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Danish Dialects are spoken in different Danish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Danish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Danish dialects include: Scanian , Jutlandic. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Finnish and Danish Speaking population
Finnish and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 %. 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 Danish on Finnish vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Danish Language Codes
Finnish and Danish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Danish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.