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Countries

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   

Total No. Of Countries
33   
2
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
26   
8
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
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
7   
6
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks   
3
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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   

Dialects

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
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
188   
34
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million   
1
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
5.43 %   
4
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   

History

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
3   
3
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed English   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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English and Finnish Language History

Comparison of English vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of English and Finnish language. History of English language states that this language originated in 5th Century AD 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 English and Finnish Language History.

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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.

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