Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Wales
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Wales
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Argentina, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Welsh Language Commissioner
  
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.
  
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
English Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
British Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Welsh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Helô
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Diolch
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Sut ydych chi?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Nos da
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Noswaith dda
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
P'nawn da
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Bore da
  
Please
haluta
  
os gwelwch yn dda
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Hwyl
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Dw i'n dy garu di
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Esgusodwch fi
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Patagonian Welsh
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Argentina
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Y Wyndodeg
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Gwynedd
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Y Bowyseg
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Powys
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Cymraeg
  
French Name
finnois
  
gallois
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Kymrisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Welsh people
  
Origin
1543
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Celtic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Brythonic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Welsh
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
cy
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
cym
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
wel
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
cym
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
wels1247
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
50-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Finnish and Welsh Speaking population
Finnish and Welsh speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Welsh languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Welsh Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Welsh 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 Welsh on Finnish vs Welsh where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Welsh Language Codes
Finnish and Welsh language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Welsh Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.