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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
Spanish
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
Tamil
29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
Thai
8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Hebrew
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
Hmong
13
Rank: 3 (Overall)
German
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
Armenian
4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Bengali
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
Chinese
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Moi
3.2 Thank You
Kiitos
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
haluta
3.9 Sorry
Anteeksi
3.10 Bye
Heippa
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
Anteeksi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Macedonian
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4.2 Dialect 2
Rauma
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
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4.3 Dialect 3
Meänkieli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Swedish
60,000.00
Rank: 31 (Overall)
Romanian
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
English
21
Rank: 19 (Overall)
Sanskrit
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
English
5.40 million
Rank: 71 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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5.2 Speaking Population
Croatian
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
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5.3 Native Speakers
Chinese
5.40 million
Rank: 65 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
English
0.01 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
Finnish
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5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
5.3.4 French Name
finnois
5.3.5 German Name
Finnisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
1543
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
6.2.2 Branch
Finnic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
Georgian
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
fi
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
fin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
fin
7.3 ISO 639 3
fin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
finn1318
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Origin of Finnish language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Finnish language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Finnish language states that it was put to use in 1543. The history of Finnish language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Finnish Language History.The evolution of Finnish language began with early forms such as Proto-Finnic language. standard Finnish is the standard form of Finnish language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Finnish Language.

Finnish population

Finnish population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Finnish language. Finnish language is spoken by 5.40 million people in the world. Most of the Finnish population lies in the Finnish Speaking Countries. Finnish language is spoken as first language by 5.40 million people and as second language by about 0.01 million people. Get to know Finnish speaking population in detail.

Finnish writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Finnish writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Finnish language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Finnish language. Learn more about . 

Information about Finnish language

Check out all the information about Finnish language here. You may find it interesting to learn Finnish Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Finnish Speaking Countries, Finnish speaking continents and Finnish Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Finnish countries knowing common Finnish Greetings will help you in communicating with Finnish people.