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Welsh and Finnish


Finnish and Welsh


Countries

Countries
Wales  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Wales  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
English Language  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
British Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7  
4
8  
5

How Many Consonants
21  
11
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Helô  
Moi  

Thank You
Diolch  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
Nos da  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
Noswaith dda  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
P'nawn da  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
Bore da  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
os gwelwch yn dda  
haluta  

Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym  
Anteeksi  

Bye
Hwyl  
Heippa  

I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Argentina  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
38,000.00  
99+
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Gwynedd  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Powys  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.40 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
7.40 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Cymraeg  
Suomi  

French Name
gallois  
finnois  

German Name
Kymrisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Welsh people  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
9th Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Celtic  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Brythonic  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Welsh  
standard Finnish  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
cy  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
cym  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
wel  
fin  

ISO 639 3
cym  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
wels1247  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
50-ABA  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All Welsh and Finnish 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 Welsh and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Welsh and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Welsh are spoken in different Welsh Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Welsh vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Welsh dialects include: Patagonian Welsh, Y Wyndodeg. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Welsh and Finnish Speaking population

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

Welsh and Finnish Language Codes

Welsh and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Welsh and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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