Countries
Countries
European Union, Finland
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Total No. Of Countries
232
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
France
Second Language
Estonia
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Italian Language
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1320
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
bonjour
Thank You
Kiitos
Merci
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Comment allez-vous?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
bonne Nuit
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
bonsoir
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
bon Après-Midi
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Bonjour
Please
haluta
S'il vous plaît
Sorry
Anteeksi
désolé
Bye
Heippa
au revoir
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Je t'aime
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Excuse Moi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Quebec French
Where They Speak
Finland
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
African French
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Africa
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00274,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Swiss French
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Northeast France, Switzerland
How Many People Speak
60,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2125
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million87.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
français
Alternative Names
Suomi
Français
French Name
finnois
français
German Name
Finnisch
Französisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
French people
History
Origin
1543
9th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Romance
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard French
Language Position
2213
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fi
fr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
fra
ISO 639 2/B
fin
fre
ISO 639 3
fin
fra
ISO 639 6
fin
fras
Glottocode
finn1318
stan1290
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
Fusional, Synthetic