1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
goeie more
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Rauma
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.01 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic