1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.8 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Germany
1.9 Second Language
Estonia
North Dakota, United States of America
1.10 Speaking Continents
1.11 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.12 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Council for German Orthography
1.13 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 large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.14 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.15 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
4.2.2 How Many Consonants
4.4 Scripts
4.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
4.6 Hard to Learn
4.6.1 Language Levels
5.1.1 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Wie geht es dir?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
guten Tag
6.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
guten Morgen
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ich liebe dich
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Swiss German
7.1.1 Where They Speak
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
8.4 Dialect 2
8.4.1 Where They Speak
8.4.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
9.8 Dialect 3
9.8.1 Where They Speak
9.8.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.006,000.00
1400
96000000
9.9 Total No. Of Dialects
10 How Many People Speak
10.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
10.2 Speaking Population
10.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million101.00 million
0.13
873
10.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.01 million128.00 million
0.01
400
10.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Deutsch
10.3.3 Alternative Names
10.3.4 French Name
10.3.5 German Name
10.4 Pronunciation
10.5 Ethnicity
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed German
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
12.5 Glottocode
finn1318
high1287, uppe1397
12.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic