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Countries

Countries

Cyprus, European Union, Greece
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

32
0 46
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National Language

Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Roman Empire
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  • 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

Armenian
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2429
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

78
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1713
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

γεια σας (geia sas)
Moi

Thank You

ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Kiitos

How Are You?

πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Hyvää huomenta

Please

παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
haluta

Sorry

συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Anteeksi

Bye

αντίο (antío)
Heippa

I Love You

Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Cappadocian Greek
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Greece
Finland

How Many People Speak

2,800.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Griko
Rauma

Where They Speak

Italy
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

50,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Mariupol
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Ukraine
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2521
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.18 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

13.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

13.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ελληνικά
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Suomi

French Name

grec moderne (après 1453)
finnois

German Name

Neugriechisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[eliniˈka]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Greeks or Hellenes
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

1500 BC
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Hellenic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Modern Greek
standard Finnish

Language Position

7422
1 120
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Signed Forms

Greek Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

el
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ell
fin

ISO 639 2/B

gre
fin

ISO 639 3

ell
fin

ISO 639 6

ells
fin

Glottocode

gree1276
finn1318

Linguasphere

56-AAA-a
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

Greek and Finnish Alphabets

Greek and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Greek and Finnish. In Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Greek and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Greek and Finnish languages. The Greek phonology consist Greek vowels and Greek consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Greek greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Greek and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Greek 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 Greek and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Greek and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Greek are spoken in different Greek Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Greek vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek, Griko. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Greek and Finnish Speaking population

Greek and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Greek and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Greek and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 % 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 Greek and Finnish on Greek vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Greek and Finnish Language Codes

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