Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
India
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
NA
  
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.
  
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Moi
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
haluta
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
50.00 million
  
22
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
finnois
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
1543
  
15
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
guja1252
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available