Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
- 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
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
God nat
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Please
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Farvel
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
dansk
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Suomi
  
French Name
danois
  
finnois
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Danish and Finnish Speaking population
Danish and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Danish and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Danish and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Danish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. 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 Danish and Finnish on Danish vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Danish and Finnish Language Codes
Danish and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Danish and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.