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Afrikaans and Finnish


Finnish and Afrikaans


Countries

Countries
South Africa  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
South Africa  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Namibia, South Africa  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Africa  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
  • 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
Dutch Language  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Dutch Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
32  
14
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
15  
12
8  
5

How Many Consonants
17  
7
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Moi  

Thank You
Dankie  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
goeie nag  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
Goeienaand  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
Goeie middag  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
goeie more  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
asseblief  
haluta  

Sorry
jammer  
Anteeksi  

Bye
Not Available  
Heippa  

I Love You
Ek het jou lief  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Verskoon my  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Finland  

Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Namibia  
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?
19.00 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
7.10 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
10.30 million  
22
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
Afrikaans  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Cape Dutch  
Suomi  

French Name
afrikaans  
finnois  

German Name
Afrikaans  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Afrikaners  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
17th Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Western  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans  
standard Finnish  

Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
af  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
afr  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
afr  
fin  

ISO 639 3
afr  
fin  

ISO 639 6
afrs  
Not Available  

Glottocode
afri1274  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All Afrikaans and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Afrikaans and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Afrikaans and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Afrikaans are spoken in different Afrikaans Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Afrikaans vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans, Oranjeriverafrikaans. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Afrikaans and Finnish Speaking population

Afrikaans and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Afrikaans and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Afrikaans and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Afrikaans and Finnish on Afrikaans vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Afrikaans and Finnish Language Codes

Afrikaans and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Afrikaans and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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