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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Ethiopia, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Ethiopia

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Somalia

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.
  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Somali Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2934
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

810
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
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

45
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
akkam

Thank You

Kiitos
Galatoomi

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
Attam jirta/jirtu?

Good Night

hyvää yötä
Nagayattii buli

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
Akkam waarite

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Attam oolte / ooltan

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
Attam bulte/bultan

Please

haluta
Maaloo

Sorry

Anteeksi
naa dhiisi

Bye

Heippa
Nagayattii!

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
Sin jaaladha

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Maaloo na dabarsi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Borana

Where They Speak

Finland
Ethiopia, Kenya

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.004,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Orma

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Kenya

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0066,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Wata

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Kenya

How Many People Speak

60,000.0013,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2117
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.36 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million24.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million35.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
Afaan Oromo

Alternative Names

Suomi
Afaan Oromoo

French Name

finnois
galla

German Name

Finnisch
Galla-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[ɔrɔmɔ]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Oromos

History

Origin

1543
16

Language Family

Uralic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Cushitic

Branch

Finnic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
No early forms

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Afaan Oromo

Language Position

2291
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Oromo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
om

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
orm

ISO 639 2/B

fin
orm

ISO 639 3

fin
orm

ISO 639 6

fin
orm

Glottocode

finn1318
nucl1736

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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Finnish and Oromo Alphabets

Finnish and Oromo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Oromo. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters. To learn Finnish and Oromo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Oromo languages. The Finnish phonology consist Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Finnish greetings vs Oromo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Oromo are Most Spoken Languages.

All Finnish and Oromo Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Oromo dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Oromo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Oromo Dialects are spoken in different Oromo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Oromo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Oromo dialects include: Borana , Orma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Finnish and Oromo Speaking population

Finnish and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Oromo on Finnish vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Oromo Language Codes

Finnish and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.