Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
- 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
German and English Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-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
dankjewel
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
haluta
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Nederlands
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Suomi
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
finnois
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Western
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Dutch and Finnish Speaking population
Dutch and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % 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 Dutch and Finnish on Dutch vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Finnish Language Codes
Dutch and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.