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Finnish and Danish


Danish and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
5   
10

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland   

Second Language
Estonia   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Europe, North America, South America   

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland   
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language 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.
  
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Norwegian and Swedish   

Derived From
Not Available   
Old Norse Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
20   
17

How Many Consonants
13   
3
20   
10

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Moi   
Hallo   

Thank You
Kiitos   
Mange tak   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Hvordan har du det?   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
God nat   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
God aften   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
God eftermiddag   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
God morgen   

Please
haluta   
Please   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
Undskyld!   

Bye
Heippa   
Farvel   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
Jeg elsker dig   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
Undskyld mig   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Scanian   

Where They Speak
Finland   
Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Jutlandic   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Denmark   

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Bornholmsk   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
Island of Bornholm   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
4   
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million   
99+
5.50 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
5.50 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
Not Available   

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
dansk   

Alternative Names
Suomi   
Dansk, Rigsdansk   

French Name
finnois   
danois   

German Name
Finnisch   
Dänisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Danish people or Danes   

History

Origin
1543   
c. 1100 AD   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Not Available   

Branch
Finnic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Rigsdansk   

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Signed Danish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
da   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
dan   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
dan   

ISO 639 3
fin   
dan   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
finn1318   
dani1284   

Linguasphere
No data available   
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Fusional   

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All Finnish and Danish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Danish dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Danish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Danish Dialects are spoken in different Danish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Danish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Danish dialects include: Scanian , Jutlandic. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Danish Speaking population

Finnish and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish 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 Danish on Finnish vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Danish Language Codes

Finnish and Danish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Danish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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