Countries
European Union, Finland
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
South Africa
Second Language
Estonia
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1343
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Molo
Thank You
Kiitos
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Unjani
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Molo
Please
haluta
Ndicela
Sorry
Anteeksi
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Heippa
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Finland
South Africa
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Thembu
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
South Africa
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
South Africa
How Many People Speak
60,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
219
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Suomi
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
finnois
xhosa
German Name
Finnisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
1543
16th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Benue-Congo
Branch
Finnic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
isiXhosa
Language Position
2221
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
xho
ISO 639 2/B
fin
xho
ISO 639 3
fin
xho
ISO 639 6
fin
xho
Glottocode
finn1318
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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