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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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