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Countries
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Countries
European Union, Finland 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden 0

Second Language
Estonia 0

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe 0

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden 0

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland 0

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.
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Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
29 11

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
8 5

How Many Consonants
13 3

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
Moi 0

Thank You
Kiitos 0

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu? 0

Good Night
hyvää yötä 0

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa 0

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää 0

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta 0

Please
haluta 0

Sorry
Anteeksi 0

Bye
Heippa 0

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua 0

Excuse Me
Anteeksi 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish 0

Where They Speak
Finland 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Rauma 0

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Meänkieli 0

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden 0

How Many People Speak
60,000.00 31

Total No. Of Dialects
21 19

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million 71

Speaking Population
Not Available 0

Native Speakers
5.40 million 65

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million 39

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli 0

Alternative Names
Suomi 0

French Name
finnois 0

German Name
Finnisch 0

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi] 0

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns 0

History
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Origin
1543 0

Language Family
Uralic Family 0

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric 0

Branch
Finnic 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language 0

Standard Forms
standard Finnish 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
fi 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
fin 0

ISO 639 2/B
fin 0

ISO 639 3
fin 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
finn1318 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic 0

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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.

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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.

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