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German
German
Finnish
Finnish
Finnish vs German


Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
European Union, Finland  
Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
2  
13
National Language
Germany  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Estonia  
Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Not Available  
Alphabets
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Alphabets
26  
8
29  
11
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
10  
7
8  
5
How Many Consonants
9  
1
13  
3
Scripts
Latin  
Latin  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11
Greetings
Hello
hallo  
Moi  
Thank You
Danke  
Kiitos  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Mitä kuuluu?  
Good Night
gute Nacht  
hyvää yötä  
Good Evening
guten Abend  
Hyvää iltaa  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Good Morning
guten Morgen  
Hyvää huomenta  
Please
bitte  
haluta  
Sorry
Verzeihung  
Anteeksi  
Bye
Tschüs  
Heippa  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Minä rakastan sinua  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
Anteeksi  
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Colloquial Finnish  
Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Finland  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
Not Available  
Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Rauma  
Where They Speak
Germany  
Finland, Rauma  
How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  
Dialect 3
Texas German  
Meänkieli  
Where They Speak
Texas  
Finland, Sweden  
How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
60,000.00  
31
Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
21  
19
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
5.40 million  
99+
Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
Not Available  
Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
5.40 million  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
0.01 million  
39
Native Name
Deutsch  
suomi / suomen kieli  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Suomi  
French Name
allemand  
finnois  
German Name
Deutsch  
Finnisch  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[ˈsuomi]  
Ethnicity
Germans  
ethnic Finns  
History
Origin
6th Century AD  
1543  
Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  
Subgroup
Germanic  
Finno-Ugric  
Branch
Western  
Finnic  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
standard Finnish  
Language Position
9  
9
Not Available  
Signed Forms
Signed German  
Signed Finnish  
Scope
Individual  
Individual  
Code
ISO 639 1
de  
fi  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu  
fin  
ISO 639 2/B
ger  
fin  
ISO 639 3
deu  
fin  
ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
finn1318  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
No data available  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living  
Living  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
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German and Finnish Language History

Comparison of German vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of German and Finnish language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. 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 German and Finnish Language History.

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

German vs Finnish Difficulty

The German vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Finnish 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 German and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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