Countries
European Union, Finland
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
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.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
nakupenda
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Samahani
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Finland
Zanzibar island
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Dar es Salaam
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Swahili
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
finn1318
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available
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.
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
Finnish and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.