Countries
European Union, Finland
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2927
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1318
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Tere
Thank You
Kiitos
aitäh
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Head ööd
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Tere hommikust
Please
haluta
Palun
Sorry
Anteeksi
Vabandust
Bye
Heippa
Head aega
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Finland
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Tartu
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
60,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
218
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million0.95 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Suomi
Eesti keel
French Name
finnois
estonien
German Name
Finnisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Estonians
Origin
1543
13th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Finnic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Estonian
Language Position
2222
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fi
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
est
ISO 639 2/B
fin
est
ISO 639 3
fin
est
ISO 639 6
fin
est
Glottocode
finn1318
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative