Countries
European Union, Finland
  
South Africa
  
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 in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.