Countries
European Union, Finland
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Estonia
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2931
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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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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Hello
Moi
alo
Thank You
Kiitos
multumesc
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ce mai faci?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
noapte Buna
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
buna Ziua
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
bună Dimineața
Please
haluta
Vă Rog
Sorry
Anteeksi
scuze
Bye
Heippa
La revedere
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Finland
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Croatia
How Many People Speak
60,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Română
Alternative Names
Suomi
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
finnois
roumain; moldave
German Name
Finnisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Romanians
Origin
1543
1521
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Romanian
Language Position
2236
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
ron
ISO 639 2/B
fin
rum
ISO 639 3
fin
ron
ISO 639 6
fin
ron
Glottocode
finn1318
roma1327
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic