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Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
10  
6

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Portugal  

Second Language
Estonia  
United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras  

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.
  
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Spanish and Galician Languages  

Derived From
-  
Latin  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
23  
5

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
9  
6

How Many Consonants
13  
3
19  
9

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Olá  

Thank You
Kiitos  
obrigado  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Como você está?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
boa noite  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
boa Noite  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
boa Tarde  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
bom Dia  

Please
haluta  
Por Favor  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
pesaroso  

Bye
Heippa  
tchau  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Eu te amo  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
desculpe me  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Brazilian Portuguese  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Brazil  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
204,000,000.00  
5

Dialect 2
Rauma  
European Portuguese  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Portugal  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
10,000,000.00  
37

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Daman and Diu  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
4,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
26  
22

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
231.00 million  
7

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
3.27 %  
7

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
216.00 million  
5

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
15.00 million  
34

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Português  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Português  

French Name
finnois  
portugais  

German Name
Finnisch  
Portugiesisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Portuguese people or portugueses  

History

Origin
1543  
3rd Century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Romance  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Medieval Galician  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Portuguese  

Language Position
22  
20
6  
6

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Portuguese  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
pt  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
por  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
por  

ISO 639 3
fin  
por  

ISO 639 6
fin  
por  

Glottocode
finn1318  
port1283  

Linguasphere
No data available  
51-AAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
-  

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

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Finnish and Portuguese Speaking population

Finnish and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. 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 Portuguese on Finnish vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Portuguese Language Codes

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

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