1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Burma
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Burundi, Gambia
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Mwaramutse
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Rwanda-Rundi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA990,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.00153,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million8.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million8.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
íkiRǔndi
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available