Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
haluta
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
sorry
  
Bye
Heippa
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
finnois
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
1543
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Standard Dutch
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Finnish and Dutch Speaking population
Finnish and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. 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 Dutch on Finnish vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Dutch Language Codes
Finnish and Dutch language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Dutch Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.