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Finnish vs Dutch


Countries

Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
8  
5

How Many Consonants
21  
11
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gronings  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Netherlands  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
590,000.00  
32
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
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million  
38
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.32 %  
38
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  

History

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
48  
35
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Dutch and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Dutch vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Dutch and Finnish language. History of Dutch language states that this language originated in AD 450-500 whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Dutch and Finnish Language History.

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Dutch 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 Dutch and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Finnish language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Dutch vs Finnish Difficulty

The Dutch vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch 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 Dutch and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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