Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
India, Pakistan
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
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.
  
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Hindi Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Punjabi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  
Please
haluta
  
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Pothohari
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Saraiki
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
5
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Doabi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Pakistan, Punjab, India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
154.30 million
  
12
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
100.00 million
  
11
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
54.30 million
  
12
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
  
French Name
finnois
  
pendjabi
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Pandschabi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Availble
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Punjabis
  
Origin
1543
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Modern Punjabi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
pa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
pan
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
pan
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
pan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
panj1256
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional