Countries
European Union, Finland
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Malaysia
Second Language
Estonia
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Thailand
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1324
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Hai
Thank You
Kiitos
terima kasih
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Selamat pagi
Please
haluta
sila
Sorry
Anteeksi
maaf
Bye
Heippa
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Finland
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Pekal
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Musi
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
60,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2124
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Suomi
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
finnois
malais
German Name
Finnisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Malaysian people
Origin
1543
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Uralic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
2254
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
msa
ISO 639 2/B
fin
may
ISO 639 3
fin
zsm
ISO 639 6
fin
may
Glottocode
finn1318
stan1306
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
Agglutinative