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Swedish and Finnish


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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
-  
Old Norse Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
9  
6

How Many Consonants
13  
3
18  
8

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  
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
5,600,000.00  
99+
78,000,000.00  
9

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Georgia  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
78,000,000.00  
7

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
France  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
96,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
15.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

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
22  
20
89  
99+

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  
52-AAA-ck to -cw  

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 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.

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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.

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