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
  
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 in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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