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Finnish and Zulu


Zulu and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
South Africa  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
South Africa  

Second Language
Estonia  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Africa  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Pan South African Language Board  

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.
  
  • The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
  • Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Xhosa Language  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
57  
34

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
7  
4

How Many Consonants
13  
3
50  
35

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Sawubona  

Thank You
Kiitos  
Ngiyabonga  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
unjani  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
okuhle ebusuku  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
okuhle kusihlwa  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
okuhle ntambama  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
okuhle ekuseni  

Please
haluta  
Ngiyacela  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
Ngiyaxolisa  

Bye
Heippa  
bye  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Ngiyakuthanda wena  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Uxolo  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Qwabe  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Gabon, South Africa  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
28,000,000.00  
24

Dialect 2
Rauma  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Georgia, South Africa  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
28,000,000.00  
22

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Ndebele  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Zimbabwe  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
28,000,000.00  
20

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.16 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
12.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
16.00 million  
33

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
isiZulu  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Isizulu, Zunda  

French Name
finnois  
zoulou  

German Name
Finnisch  
Zulu-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[zuːlu]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Zulu people  

History

Origin
1543  
19  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Benue-Congo  

Branch
Finnic  
Beatu  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
urban Zulu  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Deep Zulu  

Language Position
22  
20
87  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Zulu Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
zu  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
zul  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
zul  

ISO 639 3
fin  
zul  

ISO 639 6
fin  
zul  

Glottocode
finn1318  
zulu1248  

Linguasphere
No data available  
99-AUT-fg  

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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All Finnish and Zulu Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Zulu dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Zulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Zulu Dialects are spoken in different Zulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Zulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Zulu dialects include: Qwabe , central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Zulu Speaking population

Finnish and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Zulu on Finnish vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Zulu Language Codes

Finnish and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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