Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
günaydın
  
Please
haluta
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
finnois
  
turc
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1543
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic