Countries
European Union, Finland
Burkina Faso
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Dagbani Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1316
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Kia ora
Thank You
Kiitos
Laafi bala
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Kia ora
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Ne y yibeogo
Please
haluta
gafare
Sorry
Anteeksi
gafare
Bye
Heippa
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
Finland
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Saremde
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Taolende
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
60,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
218
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million7.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million7.60 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Mosse
Alternative Names
Suomi
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
French Name
finnois
moré
German Name
Finnisch
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[mɔ̀ːsì]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Mossi
Origin
1543
11th Century AD
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Western Sudanic
Branch
Finnic
Gur (Voltaic)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Mossi
Language Position
2237
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Mossi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
mos
ISO 639 2/B
fin
mos
ISO 639 3
fin
mos
ISO 639 6
fin
mos
Glottocode
finn1318
moss1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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