Countries
European Union, Finland
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Turkey
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2929
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1321
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Merhaba
Thank You
Kiitos
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
günaydın
Please
haluta
lütfen
Sorry
Anteeksi
üzgünüm
Bye
Heippa
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Finland
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Rauma
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
60,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
219
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Suomi
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
finnois
turc
German Name
Finnisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Turkish
Origin
1543
c. 1350
Language Family
Uralic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Turkic
Branch
Finnic
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
2219
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
tur
ISO 639 2/B
fin
tur
ISO 639 3
fin
tur
ISO 639 6
fin
tur
Glottocode
finn1318
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic