Countries
European Union, Finland
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
France
Second Language
Estonia
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Italian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Comment allez-vous?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
bonne Nuit
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
bonsoir
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
bon Après-Midi
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Bonjour
Please
haluta
S'il vous plaît
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Je t'aime
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Excuse Moi
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Quebec French
Where They Speak
Finland
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Rauma
African French
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Africa
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Swiss French
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Northeast France, Switzerland
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
français
Alternative Names
Suomi
Français
French Name
finnois
français
German Name
Finnisch
Französisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Not Available
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Romance
Branch
Finnic
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard French
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
fras
Glottocode
finn1318
stan1290
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-i
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Finnish and French Speaking population
Finnish and French speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and French languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and French Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 %. 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 French on Finnish vs French where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and French Language Codes
Finnish and French language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and French Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.