Countries
European Union, Finland
European Union, Ireland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Ireland
Second Language
Estonia
Ireland
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
United Kingdom
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Foras na Gaeilge
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 Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2918
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1313
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Dia dhuit
Thank You
Kiitos
Go raibh maith agat
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Conas atá tú ?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Oíche mhaith
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Dia dhuit ar maidin
Please
haluta
le do thoil
Sorry
Anteeksi
Tá brón orm
Bye
Heippa
Slán
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Is breá liom thú
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Gabh mo leithscéal
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Connacht Irish
Where They Speak
Finland
Connacht
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Munster Irish
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Munster
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Ulster Irish
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Ulster
How Many People Speak
60,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1.79 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million0.14 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million1.65 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
Alternative Names
Suomi
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
French Name
finnois
irlandais moyen
German Name
Finnisch
Mittelirisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Irish people
Origin
1543
c. 750
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Celtic
Branch
Finnic
Goidelic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
Language Position
2225
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Irish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ga
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
gle
ISO 639 2/B
fin
gle
ISO 639 3
fin
gle
ISO 639 6
fin
gle
Glottocode
finn1318
iris1253
Linguasphere
No data available
50-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional