Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
-
-