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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu

Total No. Of Countries

232
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
France

Second Language

Estonia
Africa, Canada

Speaking Continents

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

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française

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.
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Italian Language

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1320
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
bonjour

Thank You

Kiitos
Merci

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
Comment allez-vous?

Good Night

hyvää yötä
bonne Nuit

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
bonsoir

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
bon Après-Midi

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
Bonjour

Please

haluta
S'il vous plaît

Sorry

Anteeksi
désolé

Bye

Heippa
au revoir

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
Je t'aime

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Excuse Moi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Quebec French

Where They Speak

Finland
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.006,200,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
African French

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Africa

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.00274,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Swiss French

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Northeast France, Switzerland

How Many People Speak

60,000.001,800,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2125
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million163.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million76.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million87.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
français

Alternative Names

Suomi
Français

French Name

finnois
français

German Name

Finnisch
Französisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
French people

History

Origin

1543
9th Century

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Romance

Branch

Finnic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Old French, Middle French and French

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Standard French

Language Position

2213
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
fr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
fra

ISO 639 2/B

fin
fre

ISO 639 3

fin
fra

ISO 639 6

fin
fras

Glottocode

finn1318
stan1290

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
Fusional, Synthetic

Finnish and French Alphabets

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

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

Finnish and French Speaking population

Finnish and French speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and French languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and French Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 %. 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 French on Finnish vs French where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and French Language Codes

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