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Dutch vs Finnish


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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