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Countries

Countries

Japan
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Palau
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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

Korean Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1413
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

54
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Moi

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Kiitos

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Hyvää huomenta

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
haluta

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Anteeksi

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Heippa

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Finland

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Rauma

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

kansai
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3121
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Suomi

French Name

japonais
finnois

German Name

Japanisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

1185
1543

Language Family

Japonic Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

-
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Japanese
standard Finnish

Language Position

822
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
fin

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
fin

ISO 639 3

jpn
fin

ISO 639 6

jpn
fin

Glottocode

nucl1643
finn1318

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Japanese and Finnish Alphabets

Japanese and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Finnish. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Japanese and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Finnish languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Finnish Speaking population

Japanese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Finnish on Japanese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Finnish Language Codes

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