Countries
Japan
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Japan
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Palau
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
- 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
Korean Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Sanuki
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Kagawa
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hakata
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Kansai
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
kansai
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
128.00 million
  
9
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
日本語
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Suomi
  
French Name
japonais
  
finnois
  
German Name
Japanisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1185
  
1543
  
Language Family
Japonic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Japanese
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ja
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
jpn
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1643
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Japanese 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 Japanese and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and Finnish language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs Finnish Difficulty
The Japanese vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese 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 Japanese and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.