1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
1.8 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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Kiitos
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
haluta
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
Anteeksi
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
ελληνικά
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
finnois
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Modern Greek
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Greek Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic