1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Madagascar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Not Available
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?
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Manao ahoana e
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Maraina tsara
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Tiako ianao.
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Eastern Malagasy
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Not Available
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?
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Fiteny Malagasy
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Finnisch
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Malagasy people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
standard Malagasy
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available