Afrikaans and Finnish
Countries
South Africa
European Union, Finland
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 in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Anteeksi
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
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Finno-Ugric
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
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
finn1318
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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.
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.