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Finnish

Lithuanian
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Finnish and Lithuanian

Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
European Union, Lithuania

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Lithuania

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Poland

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
  • Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
  • "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Latvian

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2932
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

812
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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
Sveiki

Thank You

Kiitos
Ačiū

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
Kaip sekasi?

Good Night

hyvää yötä
Labanakt

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
Labas vakaras

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Laba diena

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
Labas rytas

Please

haluta
Prašom

Sorry

Anteeksi
atsiprašau

Bye

Heippa
Ate

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
Aš myliu tave

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Atsiprašau

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Samogitian

Where They Speak

Finland
Lithuania

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Aukštaitian

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Lithuania

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.003,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Curonian

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Lithuania

How Many People Speak

60,000.003,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2110
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million3.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million3.00 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
lietuvių kalba

Alternative Names

Suomi
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy

French Name

finnois
lituanien

German Name

Finnisch
Litauisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Lithuanians

History

Origin

1543
c. 1503

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
-

Branch

Finnic
Baltic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
No early forms

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Lithuanian

Language Position

2244
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Lithuanian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
lt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
lit

ISO 639 2/B

fin
lit

ISO 639 3

fin
lit

ISO 639 6

fin
lit

Glottocode

finn1318
lith1251

Linguasphere

No data available
54-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic

Finnish and Lithuanian Alphabets

Finnish and Lithuanian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Lithuanian. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Lithuanian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Finnish and Lithuanian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Lithuanian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Finnish and Lithuanian Speaking population

Finnish and Lithuanian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Lithuanian languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Lithuanian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Lithuanian language is 0.07 %. 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 Lithuanian on Finnish vs Lithuanian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Lithuanian Language Codes

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