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German and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
7  
8

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Germany  

Second Language
Estonia  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Council for German Orthography  

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
10  
7

How Many Consonants
13  
3
9  
1

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
hallo  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Danke  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
guten Morgen  

Please
haluta  
bitte  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
Verzeihung  

Bye
Heippa  
Tschüs  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
Not Available  
1.39 %  
12

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
finnois  
allemand  

German Name
Finnisch  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Germans  

History

Origin
1543  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Germanic  

Branch
Finnic  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
Not Available  
9  
9

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
ger  

ISO 639 3
fin  
deu  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
deus  

Glottocode
finn1318  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
No data available  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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All Finnish and German 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 German dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and German Speaking population

Finnish and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and German languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Finnish vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and German Language Codes

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

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