Countries
European Union, Finland
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
India
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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2951
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1335
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
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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Hello
Moi
Namaskara
Thank You
Kiitos
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
yedde kaande
Please
haluta
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Anteeksi
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Heippa
Barpe
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Finland
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Jain
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Girijan
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
60,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Tulu
Alternative Names
Suomi
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
finnois
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German Name
Finnisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Tuluva
Origin
1543
14
Language Family
Uralic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
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Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Tulu
Language Position
2223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
fin
tul
ISO 639 3
fin
tcy
ISO 639 6
fin
tcy
Glottocode
finn1318
tulu1258
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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