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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French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Merci
  
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
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
désolé
  
Bye
Heippa
  
au revoir
  
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
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
87.00 million
  
11
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
  
Origin
1543
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Romance
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
fi
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic