Countries
European Union, Finland
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Abkhazia
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
-
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2962
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
82
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1360
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Kiitos
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
haluta
амритана
Sorry
Anteeksi
Амарахь
Bye
Heippa
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
-
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Finland
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Sadz
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Turkey
How Many People Speak
60,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
finnois
abkhaze
German Name
Finnisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Abkhaz people
Origin
1543
c. 1650
Language Family
Uralic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Abkhaz
Language Position
2228
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
abk
ISO 639 2/B
fin
abk
ISO 639 3
fin
abk
ISO 639 6
fin
abks
Glottocode
finn1318
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative