Countries
European Union, Finland
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Estonia
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Armenian