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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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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

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

87
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1317
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

Kiitos
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

hyvää yötä
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

haluta
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

Anteeksi
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

Heippa
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Finland
Greece

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Griko

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Italy

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

60,000.0013,000,000.00
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 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Suomi
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

finnois
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Finnisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

1543
1500 BC

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Hellenic

Branch

Finnic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Modern Greek

Language Position

2274
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
ell

ISO 639 2/B

fin
gre

ISO 639 3

fin
ell

ISO 639 6

fin
ells

Glottocode

finn1318
gree1276

Linguasphere

No data available
56-AAA-a

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 Greek Alphabets

Finnish and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Greek. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Finnish and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Finnish and Greek Speaking population

Finnish and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Finnish vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Greek Language Codes

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