1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Norway
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Norway
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Nynorsk
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
god ettermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
god morgen
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Jeg Elsker Deg
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Jamtlandic
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland
Jamtland,Harjedalen
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Hallingmål-Valdris
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Hallingdal, Valdres
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 million5.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million5.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Norsk
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
finnois
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Finnic
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Nynorsk, Bokmål
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Norwegian
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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