Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Please
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Bye
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
English
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Suomi
  
French Name
anglais
  
finnois
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
English 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 English and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in English and Finnish language. English word for "Hello" is Hello or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common English Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
English vs Finnish Difficulty
The English vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of English 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 English and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in English and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn English is 6 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.