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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
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

Total No. Of Countries

233
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
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

Second Language

Estonia
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

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

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
South Africa

Regulated By

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

Similar To

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

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

47
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
Hello

Thank You

Kiitos
Thank you

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
How are you?

Good Night

hyvää yötä
Good Night

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
Good Morning

Please

haluta
Please

Sorry

Anteeksi
Sorry

Bye

Heippa
Bye

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
I love you

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
American English

Where They Speak

Finland
United States of America

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

60,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

21188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
English

Alternative Names

Suomi
English

French Name

finnois
anglais

German Name

Finnisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
English people

History

Origin

1543
5th Century AD

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
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Branch

Finnic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

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

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Standard English

Language Position

223
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
eng

ISO 639 2/B

fin
eng

ISO 639 3

fin
eng

ISO 639 6

fin
engs

Glottocode

finn1318
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Finnish and English Alphabets

Finnish and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and English. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Finnish and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Finnish and English Speaking population

Finnish and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and English languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Finnish vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and English Language Codes

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