Countries
European Union, Finland
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
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46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Philippines
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Commission on the Filipino Language
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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Derived From
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