Countries
European Union, Finland
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2931
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1326
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Kiitos
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
haluta
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Anteeksi
жал (žal)
Bye
Heippa
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Finland
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Debar
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
60,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2128
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
finnois
macédonien
German Name
Finnisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Macedonians
Origin
1543
2200 BC
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Macedonian
Language Position
2245
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
fin
mac
ISO 639 3
fin
mkd
ISO 639 6
fin
mkd
Glottocode
finn1318
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic