Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
France, Spain
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
- 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
Spanish
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kaixo
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Gabon
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Egun on
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Mesedez
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Barkatu
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Agur
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Maite zaitut
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Barkatu
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Souletin
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Biscayan
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.20 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Not available
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
Suomi
  
French Name
basque
  
finnois
  
German Name
Baskisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Basque people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1000
  
1543
  
Language Family
Vasconic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Basque
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eu
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eus
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
baq
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
eus
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
basq1248
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Basque and Finnish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Basque and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Basque and Finnish language. Basque word for "Hello" is Kaixo or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Basque Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Basque vs Finnish Difficulty
The Basque vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Basque Alphabets and Finnish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Basque and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Basque and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Basque is 88 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.