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Finnish and French


Countries

Countries
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  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
32  
3
2  
13

National Language
France  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Africa, Canada  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Italian Language  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
8  
5

How Many Consonants
20  
10
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
bonjour  
Moi  

Thank You
Merci  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
bonne Nuit  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
bonsoir  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
Bonjour  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
S'il vous plaît  
haluta  

Sorry
désolé  
Anteeksi  

Bye
au revoir  
Heippa  

I Love You
Je t'aime  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Excuse Moi  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Quebec French  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
African French  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Africa  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
274,000,000.00  
1
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Swiss French  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
60,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
25  
21
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
163.00 million  
11
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.12 %  
18
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
76.00 million  
13
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
87.00 million  
11
0.01 million  
99+

Native Name
français  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Français  
Suomi  

French Name
français  
finnois  

German Name
Französisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
French people  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
9th Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
-  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Standard French  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
13  
12
22  
20

Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fr  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fra  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
fre  
fin  

ISO 639 3
fra  
fin  

ISO 639 6
fras  
fin  

Glottocode
stan1290  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-i  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All French and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all French and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of French and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of French are spoken in different French Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking French vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the French dialects include: Quebec French, African French. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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French and Finnish Speaking population

French and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of French and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak French and Finnish on French vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

French and Finnish Language Codes

French and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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