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Finnish vs Italian


Countries

Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
2  
13

National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
  • 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
French and Portuguese Languages  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
21  
3
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
16  
6
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
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
ciao  
Moi  

Thank You
grazie  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Come stai?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
buonanotte  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
buonasera  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
buongiorno  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
Per Favore  
haluta  

Sorry
scusate  
Anteeksi  

Bye
arrivederci  
Heippa  

I Love You
Ti amo  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Scusami  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Romanesco  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Lazio  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00  
21
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Central Italian  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00  
14
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Tuscan  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
78.00 million  
21
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.90 %  
22
Not Available  

Native Speakers
64.00 million  
18
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
14.00 million  
20
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
Italiano  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Italiano  
Suomi  

French Name
italien  
finnois  

German Name
Italienisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Italians  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
960 BC  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Not Available  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Italian  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
27  
23
Not Available  

Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
it  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ita  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
ita  
fin  

ISO 639 3
ita  
fin  

ISO 639 6
itas  
Not Available  

Glottocode
ital1282  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-q  
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  

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