Countries
European Union, Finland
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Somalia
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Yemen
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1321
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moi
Hello
Thank You
Kiitos
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Subax wanaagsan
Please
haluta
Fadlan
Sorry
Anteeksi
sorry
Bye
Heippa
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Finland
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
60,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Suomi
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
finnois
somali
German Name
Finnisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Somalis
Origin
1543
19th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Cushitic
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Somali
Language Position
2283
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
som
ISO 639 2/B
fin
som
ISO 639 3
fin
som
ISO 639 6
fin
som
Glottocode
finn1318
soma1255
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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