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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Zambia

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
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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.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Zulu language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2931
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1318
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

45
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
Moni

Thank You

Kiitos
Zikomo

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

hyvää yötä
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Masana abwino

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
M'mawa wabwino

Please

haluta
Chonde

Sorry

Anteeksi
pepani

Bye

Heippa
anatsanzikana

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Kasungu

Where They Speak

Finland
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

60,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

215
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Suomi
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

finnois
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Finnisch
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Chewa people

History

Origin

1543
15th Century

Language Family

Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Benue-Congo

Branch

Finnic
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
No early forms

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Chewa

Language Position

2227
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
nya

ISO 639 2/B

fin
nya

ISO 639 3

fin
nya

ISO 639 6

fin
nya

Glottocode

finn1318
nyan1308

Linguasphere

No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag

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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Finnish and Chewa Alphabets

Finnish and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Chewa. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Finnish and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Chewa languages. The Finnish phonology consist Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Finnish greetings vs Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Finnish and Chewa Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Finnish and Chewa Speaking population

Finnish and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Chewa on Finnish vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Chewa Language Codes

Finnish and Chewa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Chewa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.