Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
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
  
Somalia
  
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.
  
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Somali Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Moi
  
akkam
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Galatoomi
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Nagayattii buli
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Akkam waarite
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Please
haluta
  
Maaloo
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
naa dhiisi
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Nagayattii!
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Sin jaaladha
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Borana
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Orma
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Wata
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Afaan Oromoo
  
French Name
finnois
  
galla
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Galla-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Oromos
  
Origin
1543
  
16
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
om
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
orm
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
orm
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
orm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
nucl1736
  
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
  
Finnish and Oromo Speaking population
Finnish and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. 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 Oromo on Finnish vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Oromo Language Codes
Finnish and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.