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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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