Countries
European Union, Finland
  
European Union, Ireland
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Ireland
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Ireland
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Foras na Gaeilge
  
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.
  
- In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Irish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Dia dhuit
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Go raibh maith agat
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Conas atá tú ?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Oíche mhaith
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Dia dhuit ar maidin
  
Please
haluta
  
le do thoil
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Tá brón orm
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Slán
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Is breá liom thú
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Gabh mo leithscéal
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Connacht Irish
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Connacht
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Munster Irish
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Munster
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Ulster Irish
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Ulster
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
1.79 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
0.14 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
1.65 million
  
35
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
  
French Name
finnois
  
irlandais moyen
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Mittelirisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Irish people
  
Origin
1543
  
c. 750
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Celtic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Goidelic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Irish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ga
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
gle
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
gle
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
gle
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
iris1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
50-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Finnish and Irish Speaking population
Finnish and Irish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Irish languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Irish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Irish language is Not Available. 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 Irish on Finnish vs Irish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Irish Language Codes
Finnish and Irish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Irish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.