Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Ghana
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Benin, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Akan Orthography 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.
  
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
ete-sen
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
meda ase
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
wo ho te sɛn?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
maadwo
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
maadwo
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
maaha
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
maakye
  
Please
haluta
  
wae
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Kafra
  
Bye
Heippa
  
bye
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Me doכ wo
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
mepa wo kyɛw
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Asante
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
9,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Akuapem
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
9,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Fante
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Ghana
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
11.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Akan
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
finnois
  
akan
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Akan-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Akan people
  
Origin
1543
  
15
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Akan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ak
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
aka
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
aka
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
aka
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
akan1251
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
All Finnish and Akan 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 Akan dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Akan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Akan Dialects are spoken in different Akan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Akan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Akan dialects include: Asante , Akuapem. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Finnish and Akan Speaking population
Finnish and Akan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Akan languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Akan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 %. 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 Akan on Finnish vs Akan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Akan Language Codes
Finnish and Akan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Akan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.