1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Kalanga and Nambya 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?
Mitä kuuluu?
Wakadini zvako?
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
Urare zvakanaka
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Masikati
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Mangwanani
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ndinokuda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
southern Zimbabwe
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million8.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Not Available
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
99-AUT-a
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