1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Moi
3.2 Thank You
Kiitos
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
haluta
3.9 Sorry
Anteeksi
3.10 Bye
Heippa
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
Anteeksi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Rauma
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Meänkieli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.00
Rank: 31 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
Rank: 71 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million
Rank: 65 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
Rank: 39 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
5.3.4 French Name
finnois
5.3.5 German Name
Finnisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
1543
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
6.2.2 Branch
Finnic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
fi
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
fin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
fin
7.3 ISO 639 3
fin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
finn1318
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic