Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Amharic-1.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Ethiopic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Selam
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
amesege'nallo'
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Dehina newot?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Dehna dur
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
melkam meshe't
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
i'ndemin walu
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
i'ndemin adäru
  
Please
haluta
  
i'bakwon
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
aznallehu
  
Bye
Heippa
  
tschao
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
afekirishalehu
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
yiqirta
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Gondar
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Gondar
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Gojjami
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Ethiopia
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Showa
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Ethiopia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
18.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
French Name
finnois
  
amharique
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Amharisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Amharas
  
Origin
1543
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Ethiopic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Ge'ez
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Amharic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Signed Amharic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
am
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
amh
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
amh
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
amh
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
amha1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Finnish and Amharic Speaking population
Finnish and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. 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 Amharic on Finnish vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Amharic Language Codes
Finnish and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.