Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
France
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
haluta
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
français
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Suomi
  
French Name
français
  
finnois
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic