Countries
European Union, Finland
India, Karnataka, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Karnataka, India
Second Language
Estonia
Goa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
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.
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Telugu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2949
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
814
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1335
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
Thank You
Kiitos
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
Please
haluta
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
Sorry
Anteeksi
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
Bye
Heippa
ಬೈ (Bai)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Badaga
Where They Speak
Finland
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00540,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Urali
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
kerala
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,440.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Kurumba
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
60,000.00220,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million49.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.58 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
French Name
finnois
kannada
German Name
Finnisch
Kannada
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Kannadiga
Origin
1543
c. 450
Language Family
Uralic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Kannada, Kannada
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Modern Kannada
Language Position
2231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
kn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
kan
ISO 639 2/B
fin
kan
ISO 639 3
fin
kan
ISO 639 6
fin
kan
Glottocode
finn1318
nucl1305
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
-