Countries
European Union, Finland
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
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.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
haluta
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Malta
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Malti
  
French Name
finnois
  
maltais
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Maltese
  
Origin
1543
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Finnish and Maltese Speaking population
Finnish and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese 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 Maltese on Finnish vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Maltese Language Codes
Finnish and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.