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Finnish and Afrikaans


Afrikaans and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
South Africa   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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

Second Language
Estonia   
Namibia, South Africa   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Africa   

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

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

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.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Dutch Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Dutch Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
32   
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
15   
12

How Many Consonants
13   
3
17   
7

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Moi   
hallo   

Thank You
Kiitos   
Dankie   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Hoe gaan dit   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
goeie nag   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
Goeienaand   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
Goeie middag   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
goeie more   

Please
haluta   
asseblief   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
jammer   

Bye
Heippa   
Not Available   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
Ek het jou lief   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
Verskoon my   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Kaapse Afrikaans   

Where They Speak
Finland   
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Oranjeriverafrikaans   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Baster Afrikaans   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
Namibia   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
3   
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
7.10 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
10.30 million   
22

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
Afrikaans   

Alternative Names
Suomi   
Cape Dutch   

French Name
finnois   
afrikaans   

German Name
Finnisch   
Afrikaans   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Afrikaners   

History

Origin
1543   
17th Century   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Germanic   

Branch
Finnic   
Western   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Standard Afrikaans   

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
af   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
afr   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
afr   

ISO 639 3
fin   
afr   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
afrs   

Glottocode
finn1318   
afri1274   

Linguasphere
No data available   
52-ACB-ba   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Analytic   

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All Finnish and Afrikaans 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 Finnish and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Afrikaans Speaking population

Finnish and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans 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 Finnish and Afrikaans on Finnish vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Afrikaans Language Codes

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

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