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Spanish vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
46   
1

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   
Spain   

Second Language
Estonia   
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands   

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

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland   
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española   

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 world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
French Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Latin   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
27   
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
5   
2

How Many Consonants
13   
3
22   
12

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   
hola   

Thank You
Kiitos   
Gracias   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Cómo estás?   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
Buenas Noches   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
Bonne soirée   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
Buenas Tardes   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
Buenos Días   

Please
haluta   
Por Favor   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
triste   

Bye
Heippa   
adiós   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
Te Quiero   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
Discúlpeme   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Mexican Spanish   

Where They Speak
Finland   
Mexico   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
105,000,000.00   
5

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Cuban Spanish   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Cuba   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
11,000,000.00   
8

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Puerto Rican Spanish   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
Puerto Rico   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
3,900,000.00   
9

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million   
99+
489.00 million   
3

Speaking Population
Not Available   
6.15 %   
3

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
410.00 million   
2

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
89.50 million   
9

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
Español   

Alternative Names
Suomi   
Castellano, Castilian, Español   

French Name
finnois   
espagnol; castillan   

German Name
Finnisch   
Spanisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Not Available   

History

Origin
1543   
210 BC   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Romance   

Branch
Finnic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
Old Spanish and Spanish   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Pluricentric Standard Spanish   

Language Position
Not Available   
2   
2

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Signed Spanish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
es   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
spa   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
spa   

ISO 639 3
fin   
spa   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
finn1318   
stan1288   

Linguasphere
No data available   
51-AAA-b   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Finnish and Spanish Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Spanish language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Spanish language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC. 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 Spanish Language History.

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Finnish and Spanish 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 Spanish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Spanish language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Spanish word for "Thank You" is Gracias. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Spanish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Spanish Difficulty

The Finnish vs Spanish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Spanish 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 Spanish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Spanish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Spanish time required is 24 weeks.

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