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
  
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 in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
3,900,000.00
  
9
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
489.00 million
  
3
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Signed Spanish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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