Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
France, Spain
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Spanish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Kaixo
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Eskerrik asko
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Zer moduz?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Gabon
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Egun on
  
Please
haluta
  
Mesedez
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Barkatu
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Agur
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Maite zaitut
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Barkatu
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
France
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Souletin
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
France, Soule, Spain
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Biscayan
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Spain
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
7.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
7.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
French Name
finnois
  
basque
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Baskisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Basque people
  
Origin
1543
  
c. 1000
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Vasconic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Basque
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
eu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
eus
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
baq
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
eus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
basq1248
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
40-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Finnish and Basque Speaking population
Finnish and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque 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 Finnish and Basque on Finnish vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Basque Language Codes
Finnish and Basque language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Basque Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.