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Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
6  
9

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  

Second Language
Estonia  
South Africa  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
France, Germany, Indonesia  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)  

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.
  
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
German and English Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
6  
3

How Many Consonants
13  
3
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Hallo  

Thank You
Kiitos  
dankjewel  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
hoe gaat het met je?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
goede Nacht  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
goedenavond  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
goedemiddag  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
goedemorgen  

Please
haluta  
alsjeblieft  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
sorry  

Bye
Heippa  
vaarwel  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Ik hou van jou  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
pardon  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Gronings  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Netherlands  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
590,000.00  
32

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Low Saxon  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
4,000,000.00  
16

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Limburgian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Belgium, Netherlands  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
1,300,000.00  
18

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
7  
7

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
28.00 million  
38

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.32 %  
38

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
22.00 million  
35

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
6.00 million  
25

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Nederlands  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Hollands, Nederlands  

French Name
finnois  
néerlandais; flamand  

German Name
Finnisch  
Niederländisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Dutch people  

History

Origin
1543  
AD 450-500  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Germanic  

Branch
Finnic  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Standard Dutch  

Language Position
Not Available  
48  
35

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
nl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
nld  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
dut  

ISO 639 3
fin  
nld  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
mode1257  

Linguasphere
No data available  
52-ACB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Historical  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Synthetic  

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Finnish and Dutch Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Dutch language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Dutch language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Dutch language states that this language originated in AD 450-500. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Finnish and Dutch Language History.

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Finnish and Dutch Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Finnish and Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Dutch language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Dutch Difficulty

The Finnish vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Dutch Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Finnish and Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.

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