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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Sweden

Second Language

Estonia
Finland

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council

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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

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Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

89
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1318
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
hej

Thank You

Kiitos
tacka dig

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
hur mår du

Good Night

hyvää yötä
godnatt

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
god kväll

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
god morgon

Please

haluta
vänligen

Sorry

Anteeksi
ledsen

Bye

Heippa
hej då

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Dialects

Where They Speak

Finland
Gabon

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Dialects

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Georgia

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Dialects

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
France

How Many People Speak

60,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2179
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
Svenska

Alternative Names

Suomi
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

finnois
suédois

German Name

Finnisch
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

1543
13th Century

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Germanic

Branch

Finnic
Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Old Swedish

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Standard Swedish

Language Position

2289
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
swe

ISO 639 2/B

fin
swe

ISO 639 3

fin
swe

ISO 639 6

fin
swe

Glottocode

finn1318
swed1254

Linguasphere

No data available
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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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Finnish and Swedish Alphabets

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

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

Finnish and Swedish Speaking population

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

Finnish and Swedish Language Codes

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