Countries
European Union, Finland
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1321
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Henda ho
Thank You
Kiitos
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Boge Setak’
Please
haluta
দয়া করে
Sorry
Anteeksi
দুঃখিত
Bye
Heippa
Hariau
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Mahali
Where They Speak
Finland
India
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Not present
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
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How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Not present
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
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How Many People Speak
60,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
211
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
finnois
santal
German Name
Finnisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1543
20th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Santali
Language Position
2241
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
sat
ISO 639 2/B
fin
sat
ISO 639 3
fin
sat
ISO 639 6
fin
sat
Glottocode
finn1318
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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