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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Japan

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Palau

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2999
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1314
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

45
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Kiitos
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

hyvää yötä
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

haluta
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Anteeksi
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Heippa
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Finland
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Hakata

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Kansai

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
kansai

How Many People Speak

60,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2131
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
日本語

Alternative Names

Suomi
Nihongo

French Name

finnois
japonais

German Name

Finnisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1543
1185

Language Family

Uralic Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
-

Branch

Finnic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Japanese

Language Position

228
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

fin
jpn

ISO 639 3

fin
jpn

ISO 639 6

fin
jpn

Glottocode

finn1318
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Finnish and Japanese Alphabets

Finnish and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Japanese. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Finnish and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Finnish and Japanese Speaking population

Finnish and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Finnish vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Japanese Language Codes

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