Native Finnish Speakers
You will get to know second language speakers of Finnish language as well as native Finnish Speakers under how many people speak Finnish language. There is an estimate that there are almost 5.40 million native speakers of Finnish language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 0.01 million population speak Finnish as second language where Finnish is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Finnish are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.
Native name of Finnish
How many people speak Finnish serves you with native name of Finnish language. The native name of Finnish is suomi / suomen kieli. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Finnish are Suomi. The German and French names for Finnish language is as follows:
- French Name for Finnish: finnois.
- German Name for Finnish: Finnisch.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Finnish on
Finnish Language Codes.