Countries
European Union, Finland
India, Manipur
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
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.
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2927
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1315
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Khurumjari
Thank You
Kiitos
Yamna nungaijare
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Athengba Ahing
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
মানিপুরি
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Nongale haugatl
Please
haluta
Chanbiduna
Sorry
Anteeksi
Saobiganu
Bye
Heippa
Chatcharage
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Eina nangbu nungsi
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
দুঃখিত
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Loi
Where They Speak
Finland
Burma, Laos
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.005,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Pangal
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Bangladesh, India
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00273,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Meithei proper
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
How Many People Speak
60,000.001,250,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
216
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million1.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
মৈইতৈইলোন
Alternative Names
Suomi
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
French Name
finnois
Meithei
German Name
Finnisch
Meithei
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Meithei people
Origin
1543
1700
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Meithei
Language Position
2238
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Meithei Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
fi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
mni
ISO 639 2/B
fin
mni
ISO 639 3
fin
mni
ISO 639 6
fin
mni
Glottocode
finn1318
mani1292
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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