Countries
Philippines
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Philippines
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Island of Cebu
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2129
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1613
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
3 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hoy
Moi
Thank You
Salamat
Kiitos
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Palihug
haluta
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
Anteeksi
Bye
Babay
Heippa
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Boholano
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Bohol
Finland
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kana
Rauma
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
North Kana
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
421
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
21.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
14.50 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Visayan
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Suomi
French Name
cebuano
finnois
German Name
Cebuano
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[sɛbuˈɑno]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
ethnic Finns
Origin
16th century
1543
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
standard Finnish
Language Position
6222
1
120
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Signed Forms
Cebuano Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ceb
fin
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
fin
ISO 639 3
ceb
fin
ISO 639 6
ceb
fin
Glottocode
cebu1242
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic