Countries
European Union, Finland
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Philippines
Second Language
Estonia
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
-
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2921
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1316
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Hoy
Thank You
Kiitos
Salamat
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Maayong Buntag
Please
haluta
Palihug
Sorry
Anteeksi
Ikasubo ko
Bye
Heippa
Babay
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Boholano
Where They Speak
Finland
Bohol
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
North Kana
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
60,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Visayan
Alternative Names
Suomi
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
finnois
cebuano
German Name
Finnisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Cebuano people
Origin
1543
16th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
2262
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
fin
ceb
ISO 639 3
fin
ceb
ISO 639 6
fin
ceb
Glottocode
finn1318
cebu1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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