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Abkhaz vs Finnish


Finnish vs Abkhaz


Countries

Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
2  
13

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

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Europe  

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

Regulated By
-  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
  • Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
  • 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
Adyghe language, Abaza language  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Caucasian languages  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
62  
36
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
2  
1
8  
5

How Many Consonants
60  
36
13  
3

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks  
8
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)  
Moi  

Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
амритана  
haluta  

Sorry
Амарахь  
Anteeksi  

Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)  
Heippa  

I Love You
-  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bzyb  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Abkhazia  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
106,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Abzhywa  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Caucasus  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
106,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Sadz  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Turkey  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
106,000.00  
99+
60,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
21  
19

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.01 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.13 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
-  
0.01 million  
99+

Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian  
Suomi  

French Name
abkhaze  
finnois  

German Name
Abchasisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[abxaz]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Abkhaz people  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
c. 1650  
1543  

Language Family
Northwest Caucasian  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
-  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
-  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Abkhaz  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
28  
26
22  
20

Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ab  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
abk  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
abk  
fin  

ISO 639 3
abk  
fin  

ISO 639 6
abks  
fin  

Glottocode
abkh1244  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Abkhaz and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Abkhaz vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Abkhaz and Finnish language. History of Abkhaz language states that this language originated in c. 1650 whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Abkhaz and Finnish Language History.

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Abkhaz and Finnish Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Abkhaz and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Abkhaz and Finnish language. Abkhaz word for "Hello" is Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Abkhaz Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Abkhaz vs Finnish Difficulty

The Abkhaz vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz Alphabets and Finnish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Abkhaz and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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