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Spanish vs Finnish


Finnish vs Spanish


Countries

Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
46   
1
2   
13

National Language
Spain   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic 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
French Language   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27   
9
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
22   
12
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
hola   
Moi   

Thank You
Gracias   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Cómo estás?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Buenas Noches   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
Bonne soirée   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Buenos Días   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Por Favor   
haluta   

Sorry
triste   
Anteeksi   

Bye
adiós   
Heippa   

I Love You
Te Quiero   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Discúlpeme   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Mexico   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00   
5
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Cuba   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00   
8
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Puerto Rico   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00   
9
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
489.00 million   
3
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
6.15 %   
3
Not Available   

Native Speakers
410.00 million   
2
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
89.50 million   
9
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
Español   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español   
Suomi   

French Name
espagnol; castillan   
finnois   

German Name
Spanisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
210 BC   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
2   
2
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Spanish   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
es   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
spa   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
spa   
fin   

ISO 639 3
spa   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1288   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-b   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Spanish and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Spanish vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Spanish and Finnish language. History of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC 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 Spanish and Finnish Language History.

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

Spanish vs Finnish Difficulty

The Spanish vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Spanish 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 Spanish and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Spanish and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Spanish is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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