Countries
Belarus, Poland
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Poland
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- 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
Russian and Ukrainian
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3913
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
Moi
Thank You
Dziakuj
Kiitos
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Dabranač
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Kali laska
haluta
Sorry
Vybačajcie
Anteeksi
Bye
da pabačennia
Heippa
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Finland
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Rauma
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Suomi
French Name
biélorusse
finnois
German Name
Weißrussisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
ethnic Finns
Origin
18th century
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Eastern
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Belarusian
standard Finnish
Language Position
7922
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
fin
ISO 639 2/B
bel
fin
ISO 639 3
bel
fin
ISO 639 6
bel
fin
Glottocode
bela1254
finn1318
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic