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Thai and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Thailand  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Burma, Cambodia, Laos  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)  

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.
  
  • Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
  • You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Lao Language  

Derived From
-  
Khmer Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
44  
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
32  
21

How Many Consonants
13  
3
44  
33

Scripts
Latin  
Thai  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)  

Thank You
Kiitos  
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)  

Please
haluta  
โปรด (Pord)  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)  

Bye
Heippa  
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Isan  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Isan  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
20,000,000.00  
29

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Northern Thai  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Northern Thailand  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
6,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Southern Thai  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
4,500,000.00  
39

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
9  
9

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
60.00 million  
27

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.85 %  
24

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
20.00 million  
37

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
40.00 million  
21

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
ภาษาไทย  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang  

French Name
finnois  
thaï  

German Name
Finnisch  
Thailändisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Central Thai and Thai Chinese  

History

Origin
1543  
1283 CE  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Tai-Kadai Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Tai  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Old Thai  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Thai  

Language Position
22  
20
47  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Thai Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
th  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
tha  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
tha  

ISO 639 3
fin  
tha  

ISO 639 6
fin  
tha  

Glottocode
finn1318  
thai1261  

Linguasphere
No data available  
47-AAA-b  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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

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Finnish and Thai Speaking population

Finnish and Thai speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Thai languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Thai Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 %. 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 Thai on Finnish vs Thai where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Thai Language Codes

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

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