Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2940
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
821
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1319
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moi
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
Kiitos
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
haluta
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
Anteeksi
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
Heippa
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Jeju
Where They Speak
Finland
South Korea
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
South Korea
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
60,000.0077,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million77.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million77.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
finnois
coréen
German Name
Finnisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[hangukmal]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Koreans
Origin
1543
Before 1st century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
2212
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ko
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
kor
ISO 639 2/B
fin
kor
ISO 639 3
fin
Kor
ISO 639 6
fin
kor
Glottocode
finn1318
kore1280
Linguasphere
No data available
45-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative