Countries
European Union, Finland
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Estonia
Poland
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2948
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1339
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
dobry dzień
Thank You
Kiitos
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Jak vy ?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Dabranač
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Dobraj ranicy
Please
haluta
Kali laska
Sorry
Anteeksi
Vybačajcie
Bye
Heippa
da pabačennia
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Finland
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
60,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
finnois
biélorusse
German Name
Finnisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Belarusians
Origin
1543
18th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Belarusian
Language Position
2279
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
bel
ISO 639 2/B
fin
bel
ISO 639 3
fin
bel
ISO 639 6
fin
bel
Glottocode
finn1318
bela1254
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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