Countries
European Union, Finland
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Japan
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Palau
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2999
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1314
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Kiitos
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
haluta
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Anteeksi
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Heippa
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Finland
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Hakata
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Kansai
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
kansai
How Many People Speak
60,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2131
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
日本語
Alternative Names
Suomi
Nihongo
French Name
finnois
japonais
German Name
Finnisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1543
1185
Language Family
Uralic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Japanese
Language Position
228
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
fin
jpn
ISO 639 3
fin
jpn
ISO 639 6
fin
jpn
Glottocode
finn1318
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic