Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
haluta
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
آسف
  
Bye
Heippa
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
finnois
  
arabe
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1543
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic