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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Wales

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Wales

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Argentina, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Welsh Language Commissioner

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.
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
English Language

Derived From

-
British Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

87
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1321
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

44
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
Helô

Thank You

Kiitos
Diolch

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
Sut ydych chi?

Good Night

hyvää yötä
Nos da

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
Noswaith dda

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
P'nawn da

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
Bore da

Please

haluta
os gwelwch yn dda

Sorry

Anteeksi
Mae'n ddrwg gennym

Bye

Heippa
Hwyl

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
Dw i'n dy garu di

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Esgusodwch fi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Patagonian Welsh

Where They Speak

Finland
Argentina

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0038,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Y Wyndodeg

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Gwynedd

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.00700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Y Bowyseg

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Powys

How Many People Speak

60,000.00700,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

218
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million7.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million7.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg

Alternative Names

Suomi
Cymraeg

French Name

finnois
gallois

German Name

Finnisch
Kymrisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Welsh people

History

Origin

1543
9th Century

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Celtic

Branch

Finnic
Brythonic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Welsh

Language Position

2231
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Welsh Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
cy

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
cym

ISO 639 2/B

fin
wel

ISO 639 3

fin
cym

ISO 639 6

fin
cym

Glottocode

finn1318
wels1247

Linguasphere

No data available
50-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional

Finnish and Welsh Alphabets

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

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

Finnish and Welsh Speaking population

Finnish and Welsh speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Welsh languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Welsh Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 %. 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 Welsh on Finnish vs Welsh where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Welsh Language Codes

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