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Finnish and Swahili


Swahili and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Africa  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)  

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.
  
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
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Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Arabic Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
24  
6

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
13  
3
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Habari  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Asante  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Habari gani?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Usiku mwema  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Habari za jioni  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
nzuri Alasiri  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Habari za asubuhi  

Please
haluta  
tafadhali  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
pole  

Bye
Heippa  
bye  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
nakupenda  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Samahani  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Kiunguja  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Zanzibar island  

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Kimrima  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Dar es Salaam  

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Kimgao  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Kilwa  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
150.00 million  
13

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
15.00 million  
40

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
Not Available  

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Not Available  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili  

French Name
finnois  
swahili  

German Name
Finnisch  
Swahili  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Swahili people or Waswahili  

History

Origin
1543  
6th century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Benue-Congo  

Branch
Finnic  
Bantu  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Swahili  

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
sw  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
swa  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
swa  

ISO 639 3
fin  
swa  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
swah1254  

Linguasphere
No data available  
99-AUS-m  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Not Available  

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All Finnish and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Swahili Speaking population

Finnish and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. 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 Swahili on Finnish vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Swahili Language Codes

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