1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Heippa
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Gcaleka
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
South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
South Africa
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.01 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
isiXhosa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Xhosa
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-fa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available