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Abkhaz vs Finnish


Finnish vs Abkhaz


Countries

Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
2   
13

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

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
  • Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
  • 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
Adyghe language, Abaza language   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Caucasian languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
62   
36
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
2   
1
8   
5

How Many Consonants
60   
36
13   
3

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks   
8
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)   
Moi   

Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Not Available   
haluta   

Sorry
Not Available   
Anteeksi   

Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)   
Heippa   

I Love You
Not available   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Not available   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bzyb   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Abkhazia   
Finland   

Dialect 2
Abzhywa   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Caucasus   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
Sadz   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Turkey   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.13 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.13 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian   
Suomi   

French Name
abkhaze   
finnois   

German Name
Abchasisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Abkhaz people   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
c. 1650   
1543   

Language Family
Northwest Caucasian   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Abkhaz   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ab   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
abk   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
abk   
fin   

ISO 639 3
abk   
fin   

ISO 639 6
abks   
Not Available   

Glottocode
abkh1244   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Abkhaz and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Abkhaz vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Abkhaz and Finnish language. History of Abkhaz language states that this language originated in c. 1650 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 Abkhaz and Finnish Language History.

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

Abkhaz vs Finnish Difficulty

The Abkhaz vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz 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 Abkhaz and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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