Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India, Karnataka, India
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Karnataka, India
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Goa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
  
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.
  
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Telugu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kannada-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kannada Script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
  
Please
haluta
  
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
ಬೈ (Bai)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Badaga
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Urali
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
kerala
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Kurumba
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
49.00 million
  
29
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
26
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
11.00 million
  
21
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
  
French Name
finnois
  
kannada
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Kannada
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Kannadiga
  
Origin
1543
  
c. 450
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Old Kannada, Kannada
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Modern Kannada
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
kn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
kan
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
kan
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
kan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
nucl1305
  
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