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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

European Union, Finland

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

1.4 Second Language

Estonia

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

1.7 Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

13
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Moi

3.2 Thank You

Kiitos

3.3 How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?

3.4 Good Night

hyvää yötä

3.5 Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa

3.6 Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää

3.7 Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta

3.8 Please

haluta

3.9 Sorry

Anteeksi

3.10 Bye

Heippa

3.11 I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua

3.12 Excuse Me

Anteeksi

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Finland

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Rauma

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Meänkieli

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

60,000.00
Rank: 31 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

21
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

5.40 million
Rank: 71 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

5.40 million
Rank: 65 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

0.01 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
German
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Suomi

5.3.4 French Name

finnois

5.3.5 German Name

Finnisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]

5.5 Ethnicity

ethnic Finns

6 History

6.1 Origin

1543

6.2 Language Family

Uralic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Finno-Ugric

6.2.2 Branch

Finnic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language

6.3.2 Standard Forms

standard Finnish

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Finnish

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

fi

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

fin

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

fin

7.3 ISO 639 3

fin

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

finn1318

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Finnish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Finnish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Finnish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Finnish. Finnish phonology gives Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. There are 8 vowels and 13 consonants in Finnish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Finnish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Finnish language is given in detail in this section.

All Finnish countries

Want to explore all Finnish countries? About Finnish language serves you with all Finnish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Finnish as official language are called as Finnish countries.

  • Countries that use Finnish as their National Language are: Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Finnish as second language are: Estonia.

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Learn Finnish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Finnish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Finnish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Finnish language.Learn Finnish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Moi
  • Thank you: Kiitos
  • Good Morning: Hyvää huomenta
  • Good Evening: Hyvää iltaa
  • Good Afternoon: Hyvää iltapäivää

All Finnish Language Codes

Get to know all Finnish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Finnish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.