Countries
European Union, Finland
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Myanmar
Second Language
Estonia
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Mon
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1333
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Kiitos
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
haluta
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Anteeksi
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Heippa
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Finland
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Intha
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Burma
How Many People Speak
60,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
215
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
finnois
birman
German Name
Finnisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Bamar people
Origin
1543
1113 AD
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Modern Burmese
Language Position
2243
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
mya
ISO 639 2/B
fin
bur
ISO 639 3
fin
mya
ISO 639 6
fin
mya
Glottocode
finn1318
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating