Countries
European Union, Finland
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Middle East
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1329
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Silaw
Thank You
Kiitos
Sipas
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Bayanit bash
Please
haluta
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Anteeksi
Bibûre
Bye
Heippa
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Finland
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
60,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.31 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Suomi
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
finnois
kurde
German Name
Finnisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Kurds
Origin
1543
16th century CE
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Kurdish
Language Position
2214
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fi
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
kur
ISO 639 2/B
fin
kur
ISO 639 3
fin
kur
ISO 639 6
fin
kur
Glottocode
finn1318
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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